Sojourner Truth

The burial sites of Elijah Fish and George Taylor in Greenwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Michigan were just added to the National Parks Service's Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program.

It turns out that West Michigan serves as the final resting place to some pretty big names.

Let's add this to the list of things I didn't know about Michigan! A famous activist for Women's Rights not only lived in Battle Creek but found it to be her final resting place.

If Calhoun County were to consider a name change, here a few examples of amazing historic figures to choose from, some of whom are on Smithsonian magazine's list of the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time.

Battle Creek's Sojourner Truth Institute, established in 1998 as an inspiration of the late Dr. Velma Laws-Clay, plans an online expansion as well as the establishing of its own foundation. Kimberly Holley, director of the new Sojourner Truth Foundation, tells WBCK the foundation will be an operating foundation, organized as an affiliate of the Battle Creek Community Foundation...