page_title: Sojourners for Truth and Justice
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Sojourners for Truth and Justice / Origins
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Charlotta Bass, Providence (?), ca. 1901-1910 Postcard with a photograph of a young Charlotta Bass. The photograph may have been taken in Providence, where Bass (then Charlotta Spears) lived with an older brother and worked at the Providence Watchman, an African-American newspaper. Filename: scl-mss064-0451~1; scl-mss064-0451~2 Coverage date: circa 1901/1910 Part of collection: Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection, 1880-1986 Type: images Geographic subject (city or populated place): Providence (?) Repository name: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research Repository address: 6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90044 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 1 photograph&#160;: photoprint, b&amp;w Rights: Copyright has not been assigned to the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research Call number: scl-mss064-0451 Repository email: archives@socallib.org Contributing entity: Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research Date created: circa 1901/1910 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographs Geographic subject (state): Rhode Island (?) Legacy record ID: scl-m0451 Subject (naf personal name): Bass, Charlotta A., 1879-1969 Access conditions: Researchers may make single copies of images solely for the purpose of private study. Copies for any other purpose must be requested in writing from the director of Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research at the address or e-mail given (phone (323) 759-6063; fax (323) 759-2252). When the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research gives permission for publication, it is as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. USC may provide high-resolution images and/or prints for purposes other than private study only with written permission from the Southern California Library. References: [Identification of item], Charlotta Bass / California Eagle Photograph Collection, Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles Other format (imt): image/tiff Subject (lcsh): Postcards; African American women
context_page_description: Sojourners for Truth and Justice was a radical civil rights organization led by African American women from 1951 to 1952. It was led by activists such as Louise Thompson Patterson, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Charlotta Bass.
context_section_description: In 1951, a group of 14 African American women leaders issued "a call to Negro women to convene in Washington, D.C. for a Sojourn for Truth and Justice" to protest government attacks on sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor W. E. B. Du Bois. In less than two weeks, more than 132 women from 14 states responded to the call.
  Louise Thompson Patterson was an American social activist throughout the Harlem Renaissance and college professor.
  Shirley Graham Du Bois, was an American author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American women.
  Charlotta Bass, was an  American educator, newspaper publisher-editor, and civil rights activist.
  The Sojourners for Truth and Justice held their inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C. from September 29 - October 1, 1951. The 1951 founding of the group was inspired by a 1950 poem written by Beah Richards, "A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood, of White Supremacy, of Peace."
caption: Portrait of Charlotta Bass, Providence. ca 1901-1910
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