The correct answer is: The speech and the movement both advocate for equal rights. Sojourner Truth’s speech she talks about how she isn’t treated equally as others and she is still a woman meanwhile, the movement’s focus is woman’s rights.

The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once.

On May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and former slave, gave one of history’s most memorable speeches on the intersection between women’s suffrage and black rights. Speaking to the Ohio Women’s Convention, Truth used her identity to point out the ways in which both movements were failing black women.

In United States v. Benson, a criminal case, Benson himself raised the Sixteenth Amendment argument, which was rejected by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. No U.S. Federal court has ever ruled that any provision of the United States Constitution forbids any direct taxation of individuals.

The Amendment exempts a major form of taxation from apportionment, and it therefore remains just as important today as it was in 1913.

In its ruling, the Supreme Court did not hold that all federal income taxes were unconstitutional, but rather held that income taxes on rents, dividends, and interest were direct taxes and thus had to be apportioned among the states on the basis of population.

She had had two children prior to Thomas – her first child, James, died in childhood. Her second, Diana, was the result of a rape by John Dumont. She had her last three children, Peter, Elizabeth, and Sophia, with Thomas.