This Week In Black History May 29 – June 4, 2024

ANGELA DAVIS raises her fist in a Black Power salute after being introduced by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in Dallas, Texas, Aug. 17, 1972. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)
MAY 291854—Escaped slave and aboli­tionist Sojourner Truth delivers her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Conven­tion in Akron. Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, had been physically and sexually abused by various slave o