(30 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Akron Ohio – 29 May 2024
1. Wide of the Sojourner Truth statue unveiling
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2. SOUNDBITE (English): Towanda Mullins, chairperson of the Sojourner Truth Project-Akron:
“I can literally take my non-dominant hand and throw a stone. To where Sojourner stood and this is where we’re placing her today. What a celebration!”
3. Various of people taking photos in front of statue
4. Wide of Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza
5. Tight of Ohio historical marker on United Way building
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 21 May 2024
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and senior vice president at the National Trust for Historic Preservation:
“Sojourner Truth delivered what has been commonly known as “Ain’t I, a woman?” on the front steps of a historic church that no longer stands, but on the exact same location as the United Way of Summit and Medina building.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Akron, Ohio – 29 May 2024
7. Various of statue of Truth
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 21 May 2024
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and senior vice president at the National Trust for Historic Preservation:
“She used her voice to advocate for women equality and racial equality, and she was a staunch early social justice advocate and in many ways, she stood up to say, ‘my voice matters.’”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Akron, Ohio – 29 May 2024
9. Medium of stone pillar in plaza
10. Various of people taking pictures in front of statue
11. Various of stone pillars in plaza
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dion Harris, landscape architect of the plaza:
“So the, the materials are, natural materials from the area got a lot of sandstone, a lot of concrete. I wanted to show the industrial side of Akron. I wanted to show every side of her and capture some of the time of the 1850s when she came. So it was a stone church, so we had to put stone in here, so we have stone pillars, we have lots of beautiful colors, and I love it.”
13. Tight of quote on stone pillar
14. Medium of Rakiesha Nash taking photo in front of statue
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rakiesha Nash, granddaughter of artist Woodrow Nash:
“Being in, in Wisconsin, where I’m from, stuff like this, like I don’t really get to see stuff like this a lot, so coming home and being able to see this and seeing so many people of color and, you know, just things like this being recognized in this manor is, is, yeah, it’s great.”
16. Various of people taking photos in front of statue
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Akron, Ohio – 22 May 2024
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17. SOUNDBITE (English): Towanda Mullins, chairperson of the Sojourner Truth Project-Akron:
“This is not an African American story. This is an American story. History at its best for all people.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Akron, Ohio – 29 May 2024
18. Medium of person taking photo in front of statue
19. Medium of statue
STORYLINE:
Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist Sojourner Truth at the very spot where the women’s rights pioneer gave an iconic 1851 speech known as “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Truth delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist Old Stone Church in Akron for the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention.
The statue was unveiled on Wednesday at the site where the church once stood.
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