Editing Sojourner Truth (section)

=== Works of art ===
In 1892, Albion artist Frank Courter was commissioned by [[Frances Titus]] to paint the meeting between Truth and President [[Abraham Lincoln]] that occurred on October 29, 1864.<ref name="Sojourner TruthInstitute" />

In 1945, Elizabeth Catlett created a print entitled ''I'm Sojourner Truth''  as part of a series honoring the labor of black women. The print is in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'s collection.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elizabeth Catlett {{!}} I'm Sojourner Truth|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/491319|access-date=September 1, 2020|website=www.metmuseum.org}}</ref> She would later create a full-size statue of Truth, which was displayed in Sacramento, California.

In 1958, African-American artist [[John T. Biggers|John Biggers]] created a mural called the ''Contribution of Negro Woman to American Life and Education'' as his doctoral dissertation. It was unveiled at the Blue Triangle Community Center (former YWCA) – [[Houston]], Texas and features Sojourner Truth, [[Harriet Tubman]], and [[Phillis Wheatley]].<ref>{{cite web|date=January 22, 2016|title=Beloved painting by Houston muralist in peril|url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Beloved-painting-in-peril-6775736.php|access-date=February 14, 2020|website=HoustonChronicle.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Mural – The Blue Triangle|date=March 14, 2017 |url=http://www.the-bluetriangle.org/the-mural/|access-date=February 14, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref>

Inspired by the work of pioneer women's historian [[Gerda Lerner]], feminist artist [[Judy Chicago]] (Judith Sylvia Cohen) created a collaborative masterpiece – ''The Dinner Party'', a mixed-media art installation, between the years 1974 and 1979. The Sojourner Truth placesetting is one of 39. ''[[The Dinner Party]]'' is gifted by the [[Elizabeth Sackler]] Foundation to the [[Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art]], [[Brooklyn Museum]] – New York in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brooklyn Museum: The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/dinner_party|access-date=February 14, 2020|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}</ref>

Feminist theorist and author [[bell hooks]]<!-- bell hooks real name uses all lower case letters. please do not try to correct it. --> titled her [[Ain't I a Woman? (book)|first major work]] after Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lee|first=Min Jin|date=February 28, 2019|title=In Praise of bell hooks|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/books/bell-hooks-min-jin-lee-aint-i-a-woman.html|access-date=February 14, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The book was published in 1981.

African-American composer Gary Powell Nash composed ''In Memoriam: Sojourner Truth,'' in 1992.<ref>{{cite web|last=jpgadmin|date=February 26, 2003|title=Gary Nash|url=https://musicalics.com/en/composer/Gary-Nash|access-date=February 14, 2020|website=musicalics.com|language=en}}</ref>''

The Broadway musical ''[[The Civil War (musical)|The Civil War]]'', which premiered in 1999, includes an abridged version of Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech as a spoken-word segment. On the 1999 cast recording, the track was performed by [[Maya Angelou]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Civil War: The Complete Work by various artists|url=https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Complete-Work/dp/B01KFR7PPK|access-date=February 14, 2020|website=www.amazon.com}}</ref>

In 2018, a crocheted mural, ''Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?'', was hung on display at the Akron Civic Theatre's outer wall at Lock 3 Park in Ohio. It was one of four projects in New York and North Carolina as part of the "Love Across the U.S.A.", spearheaded by fiber artist OLEK.<ref>{{cite web|title=Installations|url=http://www.loveacrosstheusa.com/current|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104043650/http://www.loveacrosstheusa.com/current|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 4, 2017|access-date=February 14, 2020|website=Love Across the USA|language=en-US}}</ref>