In 1851, Sojourner Truth stood up in the midst of a women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio, and delivered her famous address, “Ain’t I a Woman?” “Well, children,” she began, “where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about?”
