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WASHINGTON POST
Tues. August 27,
1974
THE WASHINGTON
Tuesday, August 27, 1974
Black WomenPOST
B9Win Awards
Winners of the first an-
nual Sojourner Truth
Award, two of them from
the Washington area, were
announced this week by the
sponsoring organization, the
Black Women's Community
Development Foundation.
Rep. Barbara Jordan (D.-
Tex.) won one of the four
awards for her work in the
Texas State Legislature and
on the House Judiciary
Committee. Ruth Bates Har-
ris, who was released from
her post at NASA as direc-
tor of Equal Employment
Opportunity but recently re-
turned as deputy adminis-
trator, was also honored as
one of the "black women
who worked long years for
the freedom and dignity of
both men and women.. . "
The other two winners
were Sister Mary Shawn
Copeland, executive director
of the National Black Sis-
ters Conference, an organi-
zation which involves blacks
in religious life in the black
community, and National
Welfare Rights Organization
leader Annie Smart of Ba-
ton Rouge, La.
The Sojourner Truth
Award, a two-foot-high cast
stone statue on a woodenbase created by Inga Hardi-
son, a black sculptor from
New York, will be given to
the winners at a fund-rais-
ing dinner Sept. 5 at the
Mayflower.
There were, 125 nominees
from across the country, a
spokesman said. A radio
campaign called for nomi-
nees that "need not be a
well-known figure. The So-
journer Truth award is for
service, not popularity."
Selection criteria included
demonstration of leadership,
personal risk taken, and pro-
jection of a positive black
woman image.
Annie Smart, a 51-year-old
mother of 13, recently made
an unsuccessful primary bid
for the U.S. Senate against
Sen. Russell Long. She's
been active in welfare rights
for the last six years and is
now a board member of the
National Welfare Rights Or-
ganization.
Sojourner Truth, a former
slave who educated herself,
was a figure in the struggle
for civil rights for ex-slaves
and for women in the post-
Civil War period, when she
traveled around the country
speaking out against indigni-
ties to both blacks and
women.160
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