Although Battle Creek, Michigan is known as America’s cereal capital, this abolitionist/women’s rights leader lived there for 27 years, died there, and is buried there.
- Lucretia Coffin Mott
- Lucy Stone
- Sojourner Truth
- Victoria Woodhull
Although Battle Creek, Michigan is known as America’s cereal capital, this abolitionist/women’s rights leader lived there for 27 years, died there, and is buried there.
Sojourner Truth. Truth spoke in Battle Creek in 1856 and moved there in 1857. In 1999, a twelve foot sculpture of Truth designed by Tina Allen was dedicated in Battle Creek.
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