Today in Black History

November 25

1895
National Negro Medical Association founded.

1883

Sojourner Truth dies.

Background

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of an American abolitionist born into slavery from Hurley, New York. (Her original name was Isabella Baumfree, but some sources list her name as Isabella Van Wagener.)