Sojourner Truth (San Diego, CA)

Sojourner Truth (San Diego, CA)

Subject (Topic)
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States
Women's Suffrage
Public art
Public sculpture

Subject (Name)
Truth, Sojourner, c. 1797 – November 26, 1883

Subject (Object Type)
Commemorative sculpture

The life-size bronze figure of Sojourner Truth holds a bible in her right hand and handbag in her left. Clad in a simple, unstructured dress, bonnet, and shawl draped around her shoulders, Truth strides forward.

Brown, Manuelita

Unveiled: Jan. 22, 2015

UC San Diego; Vice Chancellor of Resource Management and Planning, the Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCSD Alumni, the Black Resource Center

To watch a video of the work's unveiling, click here.

JPEG

English

Visual Arts-Sculpture

Thurgood Marshall College Campus, University of California at San Diego, CA

Bronze Plaque mounted on stone support reads:

“Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)

Suffragist and Abolitionist

"I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is powerful and will prevail.”

Sculpted by Manuelita Brown"

6'

Bronze

Johnson, Erika. "Marshall College Unveils New Sojourner Truth Statue." This Week@ UC San Diego. Accessed Nov. 4th, 2019: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/marshall_college_unveils_new_sojourner_truth_statue

Renée Ater

Sculpture

72 in. (182.88 cm.)