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=== Additional recognition === [[File:Sojourner Truth c1864.jpg|thumb|right|Sojourner Truth, {{circa|1864}}]] In regard to the magazine ''[[Ms. (magazine)|Ms.]]'', which began in 1972,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/about.asp |title=Ms magazine website |work=About Ms.|date=December 14, 2009 |access-date=August 15, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Steinem|first=Gloria|title=Who is Gloria?|url=http://www.gloriasteinem.com/who-is-gloria/|work=Gloria Steinem Official Website|access-date=August 15, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221110011/http://www.gloriasteinem.com/who-is-gloria|archive-date=February 21, 2014}}</ref> [[Gloria Steinem]] has stated, "We were going to call it ''Sojourner'', after Sojourner Truth, but that was perceived as a travel magazine.<ref>''Gloria: In Her Own Words'' (2011 documentary, directed by Peter Kunhardt)</ref> Truth was posthumously inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]] in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1981.<ref name="Sojourner TruthInstitute" /> She was also inducted to the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, in Lansing, Michigan. She was part of the inaugural class of inductees when the museum was established in 1983.<ref name="Sojourner TruthInstitute" /> The [[U.S. Postal Service]] issued a commemorative, 22-cent postage stamp honoring Sojourner Truth in 1986.<ref name="Sojourner TruthInstitute" /><ref>[[Scott catalog]] # 2203, first day of issue on February 4, 1986.</ref> The original artwork was created by [[Jerry Pinkney]], and features a double portrait of Truth. The stamp was part of the Black Heritage series. The first day of issue was February 4, 1986.<ref>{{cite web|title=Black Heritage: Sojourner Truth {{!}} National Postal Museum|url=https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/art-of-the-stamp-the-artwork-legends/black-heritage-sojourner-truth|access-date=September 1, 2020|website=postalmuseum.si.edu}}</ref> Truth was included in a monument of "Michigan Legal Milestones" erected by the [[State Bar of Michigan]] in 1987, honoring her historic court case.<ref>{{cite web|date=May 29, 1997|title=Michigan Legal Milestones: 6. Sojourner Truth|url=http://www.michbar.org/programs/milestone/milestones_SojournerTruth.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110210537/http://www.michbar.org/programs/milestone/milestones_SojournerTruth.cfm|archive-date=November 10, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|publisher=Michbar.org}}</ref> The [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)|calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church]] remembers Sojourner Truth annually, together with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], [[Amelia Bloomer]] and [[Harriet Tubman|Harriet Ross Tubman]], on July 20.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEq7DwAAQBAJ |title=Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 |year= 2019 |publisher=Church Publishing, Inc. |isbn=978-1-64065-235-4 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Calendar of Saints (Lutheran)|calendar of saints of the Lutheran Church]] remembers Sojourner Truth together with Harriet Tubman on March 10.<ref>{{cite web|date=February 26, 2018|title=Sojourner|url=https://www.gathermagazine.org/sojourner/|access-date=February 14, 2020|website=Gather Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1997, The [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named [[Sojourner (rover)|"Sojourner"]].<ref>NASA, [http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/rover/name.html "NASA Names First Rover to Explore the Surface of Mars"]. Retrieved December 4, 2006.</ref> The following year, S.T. Writes Home<ref>{{cite web|title=S.T. Writes Home|url=http://www.suekientz.com/st|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514160251/http://www.suekientz.com/st|archive-date=May 14, 2008}}</ref> appeared on the web offering "Letters to Mom from Sojourner Truth", in which the Mars Pathfinder Rover at times echoes its namesake. In 2002, Temple University scholar [[Molefi Kete Asante]] published a list of [[100 Greatest African Americans]], which includes Sojourner Truth.<ref>Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). ''100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia''. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. {{ISBN|1-57392-963-8}} {{page?|date=December 2024}}.</ref> In 2009 Truth was inducted into the [[National Abolition Hall of Fame]], in [[Peterboro, New York]]. In 2014, the asteroid [[249521 Truth]] was named in her honor.<ref>Minor Planet Center. [http://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=truth ''Individual Object Observations: Truth''], Retrieved on July 15, 2014.</ref> Truth was included in the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s list of the "100 Most Significant Americans", published 2014.<ref name="smith" /> The [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Treasury Department]] announced in 2016 that an image of Sojourner Truth will appear on the back of a newly designed [[United States ten-dollar bill|$10 bill]] along with [[Lucretia Mott]], [[Susan B. Anthony]], [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], [[Alice Paul]] and the [[1913 Woman Suffrage Procession]]. Designs for new $5, $10 and $20 bills were originally scheduled to be unveiled in 2020 in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of American women winning the right to vote via the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0436.aspx|title=Treasury Secretary Lew Announces Front of New $20 to Feature Harriet Tubman, Lays Out Plans for New $20, $10 and $5|date=April 20, 2016|publisher=Dept. of the Treasury|access-date=December 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813154541/https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0436.aspx|archive-date=August 13, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Treasury Secretary [[Steven Mnuchin|Steve Mnuchin]] announced that plans for the $20 redesign, which was to feature Harriet Tubman, have been postponed. On September 19, 2016, the [[United States Secretary of the Navy|U.S. Secretary of the Navy]] [[Ray Mabus]] announced the name of the last ship of a six unit construction contract as [[USNS Sojourner Truth (T-AO-210)|USNS ''Sojourner Truth'' (T-AO 210)]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://navaltoday.com/2016/09/20/us-navy-names-two-fleet-tankers-after-civil-and-human-rights-icons/|title=US Navy names two fleet tankers after civil and human rights icons|website=Naval Today|language=en-US|date=September 20, 2016|access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref> This ship will be part of the latest [[John Lewis-class oiler|''John Lewis''-class]] of [[Replenishment oiler|Fleet Replenishment Oilers]] named in honor of U.S. civil and human rights heroes currently under construction at [[National Steel and Shipbuilding Company|General Dynamics NASSCO]] in San Diego, CA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.naval-technology.com/uncategorised/newsgeneral-dynamics-awarded-640m-contract-to-build-fleet-oilers-for-us-navy-4939612/|title=General Dynamics awarded $640m contract to build fleet oilers for US Navy|date=July 3, 2016|website=Naval Technology|language=en-GB|access-date=February 1, 2019|archive-date=November 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110010926/https://www.naval-technology.com/uncategorised/newsgeneral-dynamics-awarded-640m-contract-to-build-fleet-oilers-for-us-navy-4939612/|url-status=dead}}</ref> A [[Google Doodle]] was featured on February 1, 2019, in honor of Sojourner Truth.<ref>{{cite web|last=Vagianos|first=Alanna|date=February 1, 2019|title=Google Celebrates First Day Of Black History Month With Sojourner Truth Doodle|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-celebrates-the-first-day-of-black-history-month-with-sojourner-truth-doodle_n_5c54540ce4b01d3c1f12dc0f|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308091059/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-celebrates-the-first-day-of-black-history-month-with-sojourner-truth-doodle_n_5c54540ce4b01d3c1f12dc0f|archive-date=March 8, 2021|access-date=December 12, 2021|website=[[HuffPost]]}}</ref> The doodle was showcased in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel, Ireland and Germany.<ref>{{cite web|title=Celebrating Sojourner Truth|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-sojourner-truth/|access-date=February 1, 2019|website=Google|language=en}}</ref> For their first match of March 2019, the women of the [[United States women's national soccer team]] each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the back; [[Christen Press]] chose the name of Sojourner Truth.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ennis|first=Dawn|title=Lesbian icons honored with jerseys worn by USWNT|date=March 4, 2019|url=https://www.outsports.com/2019/3/4/18248520/lesbian-icons-honored-with-jerseys-worn-uswnt|access-date=March 4, 2019|publisher=Outsports}}</ref> [[Metro-North Railroad]] named one of its [[Shoreliner|Shoreliner II]] passenger cars β No.6188 β in honor of Sojourner Truth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Railroad.net Railroad Forums|date=June 3, 2013 |url=https://railroad.net/shoreliner-discussion-t13664-75.html#p1244024|access-date=October 19, 2023}}</ref>
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