Editing Sojourner Truth (section)

==== Michigan ====
The first historical marker honoring Truth was established in [[Battle Creek, Michigan|Battle Creek]] in 1935, when a stone memorial was placed in Stone History Tower, in Monument Park. The State of Michigan further recognized her legacy by naming highway [[M-66 (Michigan highway)|M-66]] in [[Calhoun County, Michigan|Calhoun County]] the Sojourner Truth Memorial Highway, running from the county line south of [[Athens, Michigan|Athens]] to Morgan Road in [[Pennfield Charter Township, Michigan|Pennfield Township]], northeast of Battle Creek.<ref>{{cite web |author = [[Michigan Legislature]] |title = 250.1028 'Sojourner Truth Memorial Highway' |date = 2001 |publisher = [[Law of Michigan#Compiled Laws|Michigan Compiled Laws]] |url = https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-250-1028 |access-date = July 22, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Barnett |first = LeRoy |year = 2004 |title = A Drive Down Memory Lane: The Named State and Federal Highways of Michigan |location = Allegan Forest, Michigan |publisher = Priscilla Press |page = 201 |isbn = 1-886167-24-9 |oclc = 57425393 }}</ref>

1999 marked the estimated bicentennial of Sojourner's birth. To honor the occasion, a larger-than-life sculpture of Sojourner Truth<ref>{{cite journal|year=1995|title=Sojourner Truth|url=https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/mhc_mitten_sojourner-truth_308425_7.pdf|journal=Eos Transactions|volume=76|issue=30|page=298|bibcode=1995EOSTr..76R.298.|doi=10.1029/95eo00179|access-date=September 18, 2017 |last1=Anonymous }}</ref> by [[Tina Allen]] was added to Monument Park in Battle Creek. The 12-foot tall Sojourner monument is cast in bronze.<ref>{{cite web|title=Monument Park|url=http://www.heritagebattlecreek.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132&Itemid=73|access-date=September 18, 2017|publisher=Heritagebattlecreek.org}}</ref>