ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York has a new state holiday on November 26: Sojourner ... Truth escaped slavery in Ulster County in 1826. In a civil rights milestone in 1828, she became the first ...

The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s ...

“Truth is a name that carries the weight of history and yet remains ... marking the first time a Black person won a case against a white person. “Sojourner walked into this very courthouse ...