Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz commenting on the Mother’s Day Proclamation and guest Tina Rogers on Black Herstory: Sojourner Truth and Charlotte Vandyne Fonten has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM on Monday 5/10/2021 at 11 AM, repeats at 11 PM on KBBF, and then repeat broadcasts in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on the following Wednesday 5/12/2021 at 11 AM.
Read description of the show and bios of the guests, see links referenced on the show and the playlist, on its archive page at:
http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA21/WSA210510.html
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Mother’s Day Proclamation
Black Herstory: Sojourner Truth and Charlotte Vandyne Fonten
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Featuring
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1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz
2. Tina Rogers, Multicultural Arts Educator
1. Commentary by host Elaine B. Holtz: In celebration of Mother’s Day we are playing a recitation of the Mother’s Day Proclamation of Julia Ward Howe of 1870, which was an appeal to women to unite for peace in the world. The collection in baskets of amputated arms and legs of soldiers in the Civil War prompted the Proclamation. We follow this with an updated version by Rivera Sun published by Code Pink for our times. Tina Rogers joins, as a regular every 2nd Monday of the month on Women’s Spaces, to present two Black Women in Herstory upon whose shoulders we stand for the rights of women. This month Tina features Sojourner Truth and Charlotte Vandyne Fonten.
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2. Our guest Tina Rogers talks about two women prominent in Black Herstory: Sojourner Truth and Charlotte Vandyne Fonten.
Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883) was born as Isabella “Belle” Baumfree in Esopus, New York. She was sold three times in slavery, once with sheep, as slaves were legally just another form of property. Listen to Tina recount the fascinating life of Sojourner Truth, the name Belle changed to at a Methodist Pentecost service for she heard the Spirit call her to preach the truth. In 1851, at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio she made her famous speech Ain’t I a Woman, calling for the abolitionism with women’s rights. She published her memoirs in 1850, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave. Sojourner Truth recruited black soldiers for the Civil War and met with Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883) was born as Isabella “Belle” Baumfree in Esopus, New York. She was sold three times in slavery, once with sheep, as slaves were legally just another form of property. Listen to Tina recount the fascinating life of Sojourner Truth, the name Belle changed to at a Methodist Pentecost service for she heard the Spirit call her to preach the truth. In 1851, at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio she made her famous speech Ain’t I a Woman, calling for the abolitionism with women’s rights. She published her memoirs in 1850, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave. Sojourner Truth recruited black soldiers for the Civil War and met with Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
Tina Rogers then shares the story, noting the difference of economic class, of the second woman Charlotte Vandyne Fonten, Sr. (1785-1884). She was the wife of a prosperous Black merchant and abolitionist James Fonten. Charlotte, James and their 3 daughters were active in founding and funding six abolitionist organizations, including the first bi-racial women abolitionist organization, the Female Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia, and were conductors of the Underground Railroad ferreting slaves to freedom and educated slaves after the Civil War.
Tina Rogers ends the segment by announcing the annual Juneteenth Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion in Sonoma County will be by zoom on Sunday, June 20, 2021, which commemorates the Blacks in Galveston being notified by a federal Major landing with Union soldiers on June 19, 1865, some 2-1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that they were indeed free. And the event is free, family oriented and open to the public. Registration will occur at www.sonomacountyjuneteenth.com
About our Guest: Tina Rogers is a native of Sonoma County who has devoted her life in trying to understand this beautiful planet, the humans and the other species that share our world. A true humanitarian is what she represents, thorough research, education, and communication with other cultures allows her to see the “big picture.” While attending UC Davis, she turned her passion for the arts, fitness, and wellness into a popular example of master teaching not only to children but people of all ages.
Tina is a role model who enjoys using arts education and fitness, as tools to “crack-the-code” in child development that lasts a lifetime.Tina has given presentations at the Sonoma County Juneteenth Celebrations. Tina Rogers will present two women in Black Herstory every 2nd Monday of the month.
Guest Links:
Contact Tina Rogers at funkystylestreetdance@gmail.com
Sojourner Truth on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth
Ain’t I a Woman speech by Sojourner Truth https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htm
PBS special on the Fonten Family: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p477.html
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Herstory
Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance
May 10, 1872 – Victoria Woodhull is nominated as the first woman candidate for U.S. president for the Equal Rights Party.
May 12, 1968 – A 12-block Mother’s Day march of “welfare mothers” is held in Washington, D.C., led by Coretta Scott King accompanied by Ethel Kennedy.
Herstory Birthdays:
May 10, 1958 – Ellen Ochoa, engineer, former astronaut, and the current Director of the Johnson Space Center, the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space when she served aboard the shuttle Discovery.
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Announcements
Sunday, June 20, 2021 5ist Annual MLK/Juneteenth Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion in Sonoma County, this year by zoom. Before the pandemic it has been held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Santa Rosa. The zoom event is free, family oriented and open to the public. Registration will occur at www.sonomacountyjuneteenth.com
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Music Selections
The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin: The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com
Mother’s Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe recited by Ghizela Rowefrom the album The Female Poet – Vol #3 (2014 Portable Poetry)
Black Women in History sung by Rissi Palmer and Snooknuk from the single Black Women in History (2021 Fyuision)
For the Mothers sung by Betsy Rose and Womansong Chorus from the album Welcome to the Circle (2006 Paper Crane Music)
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