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Google Kicks Off Black History Month With Doodle For Sojourner Truth

Google Sojourner Truth

Today on the Google.com home page is a Doodle for Black History month for African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth. When you click on the Doodle, you get the option to see an AMP Story on desktop, not just on mobile – which may be new.

She was born in Swartekill, New York sometime in the year 1797 and passed in Battle Creek, Michigan at the age of 86 on November 26, 1883. Truth was born into slavery and escaped with her infant daughter in 1826. She became the first black woman to win a case against a white man regarding recovering her son. You can learn a lot about her life on Wikipedia.

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