WASHINGTON, April 28 (UPI) -- Michelle Obama unveiled a statue of Sojourner Truth in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, saying she and others are standing on the shoulders of the abolitionist.
Truth, who chose her own name after she was freed from slavery, is the first black woman to have a statue in the Capitol. A crusader for the rights of women as well as for abolition of slavery, she was born a slave in upstate New York and became free as an adult when the state ended slavery.