[Antiracism] Sojourner Truth Memorial Celebration, May 28

[s.strimer at excite.com]

Dear Moderator,

Would you send the following message out to our list, please? Thank you on behalf of the Sojourner Truth Committee.

Steve Strimer

MESSAGE:

Dear Anti-Racism workers of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden,

You are invited to the third annual Sojourner Truth Commemoration Celebration on Sunday May 28, 2:00 PM, at Memorial Park on the corner of Park and Pine Streets in Florence. In case of rain, the event will take place across the street at the Florence Community Center. 
A highlight of this event will be the presentation of the second Sojourner Truth Scholarship for Social Justice. Two scholarships will be awarded to high school seniors who demonstrate commitment to social justice. 

The program will include music by Eveyln Harris, Morningstar and Moonlight and Michael Gregory, and a dance perfomance by Umoja Too dance ensemble. Speakers will include Linda Zeigenbein on David Ruggles and the Northampton Association, Dwight Miller of Brockton's Liberty Tree Project and Ruth Trujillo of the Greensboro Justice Fund on Immigrants' Rights. Following the program, Steve Strimer will lead a walking history tour of abolition era Florence and its historical African-American Community.

The Sojourner Truth Memorial Park ish dedicated to the memory of Sojourner Truth and her neighbors in Florence, partners in the struggle for equal rights and the abolition of slavery. Born a slave in upstate New York, Sojourner Truth came to Florence in 1843 to join a utopian community which stood for abolitionism, pacifism, and equality including equal pay and equal voting rights regardless of race, class, or gender. After the dissolution of the Northampton Association of Education and Industry in 1846, Truth remained in Florence until 1857, moving into her own home on Park Street, about a block from the Memorial Park.

Please Join Us!

Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Committee 




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