SOJOURNERS FOR JUSTICE PRESS
FEMINISTS RADICAL
Inspired by Redstockings' Abortion Speakout, New York Radical Feminists organize a Rape Speakout at St. Clements Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The speakout includes testimony by women on sexual violence. (1971)
ou may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway.”
SOJOURNER TRUTH
HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
Lucy Parsons leads 15,000 unemployed people & supporters in a Chicago march demanding relief from hunger and poverty in 1915.
Inspired by Redstockings' Abortion Speakout, New York Radical Feminists organize a Rape Speakout at St. Clements Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The speakout includes testimony by women on sexual violence in 1971.
Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron, OH in 1851.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY
TRANS PRISONER DAY OF ACTION
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM B. 1916
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. B. 1929
MARY HELEN WASHINGTON B. 1941
AMY ASHWOOD GARVEY B. 1897
ANGELA DAVIS B. 1944
WILLIANA JONES BURROUGHS B.1882
ZORA NEALE HURSTON B. 1891
Sistagrrrls
featuring a very special guest dj gretchen
Starting on Valentine's Day in 1998, New York City-based musicians produced a series of concerts under the moniker Sista Grrrl Riot.
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Using their connections to New York's indie music venues, they took turns producing shows, creating flyers, and arranging each evening's festivities, resulting in an “Afropunk” space before Afro-Punk existed.
HONEYCHILD COLEMAN, TAMAR-KALI BROWN, SIMANTHA M. SERNAKER, & MAYA SOKORA
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BEAL
BASS B. 1874
Sista Grrrls host Valentine's Day Riot in 1998.
Protest of Lumumba's assassination organized by Maya Angelou, Abbey Lincoln & others at the UN in 1961.
CHARLOTTA
TONI MORRISON
CLAUDIA JONES
RAMADAN BEGINS
March
The first Black American newspaper Freedom's Journal is published (1827)
Claudette Colvin arrested for not giving up her seat in 1955.
Disability activists push Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act by organizing the “Capitol Crawl” in D.C. in 1990.
The first Black American newspaper Freedom's Journal is published in 1827.
Breonna Taylor is murdered by police in Louisville, KY kicking off one of the largest protests in U.S. history in 2020.
ELAINE BROWN B. 1943
Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, NY in 1913.
FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAM B. 1856
LORYNCE “FLO” KENNEDY B. 1916
H ARRIET TUBMAN B. 1822
APRIL
The first issue of the Black Panther Party's official newspaper was published in 1967.
The Standing Rock Sioux build the Sacred Stone Camp to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in
People with disabilities occupied federal buildings to push the issuance of long-delayed regulations regarding Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the first federal civil rights protection for disabled people in 1997.
B. 1915
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded in 1960.
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY GOOD FRIDAY
PASSOVER BEGINS AT SUNDOWN
The first issue of the Black Panther Party's official newspaper is published in 1967.
ELISABETH CATLETT
BILLIE HOLIDAY
UNA MULZAC
MARVEL COOKE
MAYA ANGELOU
CORETTA SCOTT KING
The Black Women's Manifesto was published by the Third World Women's Alliance in 1970.
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MAY DAY
The first International Workers's Day commemorates over 340,000 workers across the U.S. striking for the 8-hour work day in 1886.
George Floyd is murdered by police in Minneapolis kicking off one of the largest protests in U.S. history in 2020.
DAY OF AWARENESS FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS
CINCO DE MAYO
CLEAVER B. 1945
Philadelphia police drop bomb on MOVE house in 1985.
MEMORIAL DAY
SLOAN-HUNTER B. 1947
The Black Women's Manifesto is published in 1970.
KATHLEEN
SYLVIA WYNTER B. 1928
REGINA ANDERSON ANDREWS B. 1901
MARY LOU WILLIAMS B. 1910
SEPTIMA POINSETTE CLARK B. 1898
LORRAINE HANSBERRY B. 1930
BETTY SHABAZZ B. 1940
VICTORIA EARLE MATTHEWS B. 1861
Harriet Tubman led the Combahee River military campaign, freeing over 750 enslaved people in South Carolina in 1863.
CHARLENE MITCHELL B. 1930
RAMONA AFRICA
INTERNATIONAL WHORES
DAY
Harriet Tubman led the Combahee River military campaign, freeing over 750 enslaved people in South Carolina in 1863.
MARGARET
GARNER B. 1824
Angela Davis acquitted of murder and kidnapping charges in 1972.
WALKER B. 1885 EID AL ADHA
GWENDOLYN BROOKS B. 1917
NIKKI GIOVANNI B. 1943
HAZEL SCOTT B. 1920
E. BUTLER B. 1947
JUNETEENTH
Stonewall Rebellion began in 1969. Volunteers arrived for Mississippi Freedom Summer. Laurel, Mississippi project director Gwendolyn Robinson (Zoharah Simmons) instituted the first federated sexual harassment policy in 1964.
A'LELIA
OCTAVIA
July
The Mirror of Liberty is the first magazine edited by an Black American. David Ruggles ran a Temperance Society grocery, a printing business, a reading room, and a bookstore in New York City and assisted in organizing the New York Committee of Vigilance
(The Mirror functioned as the Committee's official organ). He did this while running the city's underground railroad, which sheltered more than 600 fugitive slaves, including Frederick Douglass, who famously followed in his footsteps as an editor and publisher.
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“ We must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”
ALZIRA RUFINO
GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT
MARGARET WALKER
JUNE JORDAN
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
IDA B. WELLS B. 1862
ASSATA SHAKUR
BUCHI EMECHETA
BEAH RICHARDS
SALARIA KEE B. 1913
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
AUGUST
Published in 1959 in East Elmhurst, New York by Muhammad's Temple of Islam.
Vol. 1, no. 1
Edited by Malcolm X.
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Abbey Lincoln found that jazz music offered her the space and freedom to be fully herself. “There is no such thing as jazz,” she says. “There’s only a song and your spirit and your ancestors.” Lincoln used the stage as a platform to sing about the struggles that Black people faced. That passion for justice, she says, turned her singing into art.
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'VE DONE WHAT I PLEASE, TOLD PEOPLE TO BUG OFF, AND EXERCISED MY INDEPENDENCE.”
The Messenger, one of the first little magazines of the Harlem Renaissance, was co-founded in New York City by Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph in 1917.
B. AUG 24, 1911
RUBY MCCOLLUM
B. AUG 31, 1905
JOSEPHINE ST. PIERRE RUFFIN
B. AUG 31, 1911
March on Washington for Jobs & Justice in D.C. in 1963.
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson published in 1859.
ABBEY LINCOLN B. 1930
ANNA JULIA COOPER B. 1858
SUZANNE CESAIRE B. 1915
ESTHER COOPER JACKSON B. 1917
ETHEL L. PAYNE B. 1911
MARSHA P. JOHNSON
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Librarian showing a copy of Ellen Tarry's “Janie Belle” to a young girl at the library.
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Dorothy Porter challenged the racial bias in the Dewey Decimal System, putting black scholars alongside white colleagues.
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ATTICA, New York
LABOR DAY
ROSA GUY B. 1922
Recy Taylor, a Black mother and sharecropper, was kidnapped and gang-raped by a carload of white men in Abbeville, AL. Sent by the NAACP, Rosa Parks organized the “Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor,” launching an international movement in 1944.
Sojourners for Truth and Justice convened in Washington D.C. to advocate for their rights. The group's manifesto “A Call to Negro Women” stated their grievances including racial terrorism, South African apartheid, U.S. militarism, and colonialism in 1951.
SOJOURNERS FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE
N THE SPIRIT OF SOJOURNER TRUTH AND HARRIET TUBMAN, WE DECLARE THAT 'WE SHALL NOT BE TRAMPLED ON ANY LONGER.” I
ROSH HASHANAH
Attica Prison Massacre took place in New York in 1971.
FRANCIS E. W. HARPER B. 1825
LOUISE THOMPSON PATTERSON B. 1901
SONIA SANCHEZ B. 1934
O CIda B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” in 1892.
Ida B. Wells was one of the most outspoken Black American s of lynching. Because she verbalized her position against lynching in her Memphis newspaper, The Free Speech, a mob destroyed the newspaper's office while Wells was out of town.
In this pamphlet, Wells draws on this example plus many others dealing with lynching.
T O B E R
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reeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
TONI MORRISON
Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" in 1892.
Toni Morrison was named the first Black American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY
HALLOWEEN
ALICE CHILDRESS
MARY SHADD CARY
NTOZAKE SHANGE
THELMA DALE PERKINS
JEAN SINDAB
MAHALIA JACKSON B. 1912
FANNIE LOU HAMER B. 1917
The first issue of The Crisis, found ed by W.E.B. du Bois, the official publica tion of the NAACP, is released in 1910.
THE BLACK SCHOLAR
F I R E !!
a literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, was published in New York City by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Bruce Nugent, and others in 1926.
Assata Shakur liberated from Clinton Women's Prison in 1979.
PAULI MURRAY B. 1910
BARBARA SMITH B. 1946
SHIRLEY GRAHAM DUBOIS B. 1896
MARGARET T. G. BURROUGHS B. 1946
DECEMBER
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is established in 1949.
In 1833, sixty abolitionist leaders met in Philadelphia to create a national organization to bring about the immediate emancipation of enslaved persons. The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) produced such publications including a monthly pamphlet for children; issued broadsides; sponsored public lectures; and encouraged civil disobedience and boycotts of cotton and other products of slave labor.
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INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ABOLITION OF
CHRISTMAS HANUKKAH KWANZAA
ELLA BAKER B. 1903
MADAME C. J. WALKER B. 1867
FREDI WASHINGTON B. 1903
STEPHANIE ST. CLAIR B. 1897
VICKI GARVIN B. 1915
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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DESIGNED BY
CINDY LAU & NETA BOMANI
Sojourners for Justice Press is a micro press that opens its platform to people working experimentally with print based media. We publish short form and ephemeral zines, pamphlets, and booklets that engage do-it-yourself, black feminist, and abolitionist philosophies. The name of our press, is inspired by the legacies of several Black feminists and their commitments
to radical dissent. In 1951, a group of socialist and Communist Black women formed the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a short-lived but significant formation. Their manifesto "A Call to Negro Women" expressed their anti-Imperialist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist values. Their ideas resonate today and our press hopes to advance them into the future.
Cover photograph: Librarian Augusta Baker showing a copy of Ellen Tarry's "Janie Belle" to a young girl at the library in 1941.