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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue.

Table of Contents -----------------
Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl.............Harriet Beecher Stowe
Reconstruction................................Frederick Douglass An Appeal to
Congress for Impartial Suffrage..Frederick Douglas The Negro
Exodus..............................James B. Runnion My Escape from
Slavery........................Frederick Douglass The Goophered
Grapevine.......................Charles W. Chesnutt Po'
Sandy.....................................Charles W. Chesnutt Dave's
Neckliss...............................Charles W. Chesnutt The Awakening of the
Negro....................Booker T. Washington The Story of Uncle Tom's
Cabin................Charles Dudley Warner Strivings of the Negro
People.................W. E. Burghardt Du Bois The Wife of his
Youth.........................Charles W. Chesnutt The
Bouquet...................................Charles W. Chesnutt The Case of the
Negro.........................Booker T. Washington Hot-Foot
Hannibal.............................Charles W. Chesnutt A Negro Schoolmaster
in the New South.........W. E. Burghardt Du Bois The Capture of a
Slaver.......................J. Taylor Wood Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's
Stories.............W. D. Howells Paths of Hope for the Negro Practical
Suggestions of a Southerner.........Jerome Dowd Signs of Progress
Among the Negroes...........Booker T. Washington The March of
Progress.........................Charles W. Chesnutt The Freedmen's
Bureau.........................W. E. Burghardt Du Bois Of the Training of
Black Men..................W. E. Burghardt Du Bois The Fruits of Industrial

Training.............Booker T. Washington The Negro in the Regular
Army.................Oswald Garrison Villard Baxter's
Procrustes...........................Charles W. Chesnutt The Heart of the Race
Problem.................Quincy Ewing Negro Suffrage in a
Democracy.................Ray Stannard Baker
Bibliography of Sources

SOJOURNER TRUTH, THE LIBYAN SIBYL by Harriet Beecher
Stowe
Many years ago, the few readers of radical Abolitionist papers must
often have seen the singular name of Sojourner Truth, announced as a
frequent speaker at Anti-Slavery meetings, and as travelling on a sort of
self-appointed agency through the country. I had myself often remarked
the name, but never met the individual. On one occasion, when our
house was filled with company, several eminent clergymen being our
guests, notice was brought up to me that Sojourner Truth was below,
and requested an interview. Knowing nothing of her but her singular
name, I went down, prepared to make the interview short, as the
pressure of many other engagements demanded.
When I went into the room, a tall, spare form arose to meet me. She
was evidently a full-blooded African, and though now aged and worn
with many hardships, still gave the impression of a physical
development which in early youth must have been as fine a specimen
of the torrid zone as Cumberworth's celebrated statuette of the Negro
Woman at the Fountain. Indeed, she so strongly reminded me of that
figure, that, when I recall the events of her life, as she narrated them to
me, I imagine her as a living, breathing impersonation of that work of
art. I do not recollect ever to have been conversant with any one who
had more of that silent and subtle power which we call personal
presence than this woman. In the modern Spiritualistic phraseology,
she would be described as having a strong sphere. Her tall form, as she
rose up before me, is still vivid to my mind. She was dressed in some
stout, grayish stuff, neat and clean, though dusty from travel. On her
head, she wore a bright Madras handkerchief, arranged as a turban,
after the manner of her race. She seemed perfectly self-possessed and at
her ease,--in fact, there was almost an unconscious superiority, not
unmixed with a solemn twinkle of humor, in the odd, composed

manner in which she looked down on me. Her whole air had at times a
gloomy sort of drollery which impressed one strangely. "So this is
YOU," she said. "Yes," I answered. "Well, honey, de Lord bless ye! I
jes' thought I'd like to come an' have a look at ye. You's heerd o' me, I
reckon?" she added. "Yes, I think I have. You go about lecturing, do
you not?" "Yes, honey, that's what I do. The Lord has made me a sign
unto this nation, an' I go round a'testifyin', an' showin' on 'em their sins
agin my people." So saying, she took a seat, and, stooping over and
crossing her arms on her knees, she looked down on the floor, and
appeared to fall into a sort of reverie. Her great gloomy eyes and her
dark face seemed to work with some undercurrent of feeling; she
sighed deeply, and occasionally broke out,-- "O Lord!