Isabella was born into slavery but seemed to always see a path out. When she was promised her freedom and then that promise was broken, she found a way to take it. Later she used the law to force her former owner to get her son back after he was sold into the South. And she was tall, so tall.
The woman who became Sojourner Truth, that same Isabella, used her voice to question and speak out, as did Clara Luper in Oklahoma many, many years later. Clara Luper encouraged her students to use their voices, and eventually Katz drugstores all across the country integrated their lunch counters. She continued to speak out against injustice for the rest of her life.
Wonderful stories about the power we all have to create change.
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary Schmidt and Daniel Minter
Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-ins by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Jade Johnson
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