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Abolitionists Abolitionists United States Biography Juvenile literature African American abolitionists Biography Juvenile literature African American women Biography Juvenile literature African Americans Biography Reformers Social reformers United States Biography Juvenile literature Truth, Sojourner d. 1883 Truth, Sojourner d. 1883 Juvenile literature Women BiographySpinale, Laura
Summary: An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery and fought for the rights of African-Americans and women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TRUSchmidt, Gary D
Summary: Shows how the hardships of slavery, particularly the loss of her family, caused Isabella Baumfree to walk towards freedom, to re-invent herself as Sojourner Truth, and to continue walking to abolish slavery and for other reforms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB SOJOURNER TRUTH SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHRockwell, Anne F.
Summary: A biographical look at the former slave who gained renown as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TRUMattern, Joanne
Summary: Introduces the life of a woman who escaped slavery, traveled and made speeches to help free slaves before and during the Civil War, and helped freed slaves to find jobs and houses after the war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TRUAdler, David A.
Summary: An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African-Americans in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB TRUTH ADLSlade, Suzanne.
Summary: Discusses how a former slave and an outspoken woman, who came from two different worlds, shared deep-seated beliefs in equality and the need to fight for it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 303.48 Slade 2015Krull, Kathleen
Summary: "Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020