"Ain't I a Woman?" speech. The book was published in 1981. New York Governor Mario Cuomo presented a two-foot statue of Sojourner Truth, made by New York sculptor Ruth Inge Hardison, to Nelson Mandela during his visit to New York City, in 1990. African-American composer Gary Powell Nash composed In Memoriam: Sojourner Truth, in 1992.The Broadway musical The Civil War, which premiered in 1999, includes an abridged version of Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech as a spoken-word segment. On the 1999 cast recording, the track was performed by Maya Angelou. In 2018, a crocheted mural, Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?, was hung on display at the Akron Civic Theatre's outer wall at Lock 3 Park in Ohio. It was one of four projects in New York and North Carolina as part of the "Love Across the U.S.A.", spearheaded by fiber artist OLEK. Woodrow Nash work Libraries, schools, and buildings Sojourner Truth Library at New Paltz State University of New York was named in Truth's honor in 1971. In 1980, the Inter Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan and the residents of the then Lenny Bruce House rename it as Sojourner Truth House in her honor. In 1991, Summit County, Ohio, dedicates the renovated Danner Press Building as the Sojourner Truth Building in Akron and unveils the reinstalled Ohio Historical Marker on the building wall. The King's College, located inside the Empire State Building in New York City, names one of their houses "The House of Sojourner Truth" in 2004. In recognition that Truth and her parents were enslaved by people related to their first president, Rutgers University renamed its College Avenue Apartments to the Sojourner Truth Apartments. Sojourner–Douglass College in Baltimore, which closed in 2019, was named after Truth and Frederick Douglass. As of February 2020, elementary schools and K-12 schools in several states are named after Truth. Organizations In 1969, the left-wing political group Sojourner Truth Organization was established. In 1996, visual artist and community activist Shonna McDaniels establishes the Sojourner Truth African American (Art) Heritage Museum in South Sacramento, California (popularly known as "SOJO" Museum). In 1998, Dr. Velma Laws Clay founded the Sojourner Truth Institute in Battle Creek, to "expand the historical and biographical knowledge of Sojourner Truth’s life work and carry on her mission by teaching, demonstrating and promoting projects that accentuate the ideals and principles for which she stood." Sojourner Truth Houses