I don't know if you know this but there has NEVER been a Black woman honored with a bust in the capitol.

In October of 2008, the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW) will take Truth to the U.S. Capitol. United States Congress finally passed the bill to place the bust of Sojourner Truth in the Capitol. Under the original leadership of Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, NCBW began a campaign to add the bust of Sojourner Truth to the Portrait Monument along side Susan B. Anthony and others who'd also worked for women to get the right to vote -- as she worked to abolish slavery -- but that bill never passed.

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