And she met Lincoln. Here is an account of that meeting from Newsday.com: Link
Bryant and Truth both had occasion to meet Lincoln, Bryant in 1862 and Truth two years later. Bryant and Lincoln enjoyed a good relationship. After Lincoln's assassination, Bryant declined an offer from Lincoln's friends to write a biography of the president. Truth, despite the glowing recollections in her narrative, received a far different reception.
She and a fellow abolitionist, who was white, were kept waiting for more than three hours as Lincoln joked with male visitors. When Truth went before Lincoln, he became tense and sour. He called Truth "Aunty, . . . as he would his washerwoman," the abolitionist, Lucy Coleman, would recall. She rushed Truth from the room.
"[President Lincoln] was seated at his desk. Mrs. C. and myself walked up to him. Mrs. C. said to him, `This is Sojourner Truth, who has come all the way from Michigan to see you.' He then arose, gave me his hand, and said, `I am glad to see you.' I said to him, `Mr. President, when you first took your seat, I feared you would be torn to pieces: for I likened you unto Daniel, who was thrown into the lion's den. ... I appreciate you, for you are the best president who has ever taken seat.' He replied thus: `I expect you have reference to my having emancipated the slaves in my Proclamation; but,' said he, mentioning the names of several of his predecessors, and particularly Washington, `they were just as good, and would have done as I have, if the time had come. And if the people over the river,' pointing across the Potomac, `had behaved themselves, I could not have done what I have.' ... I am proud to say that I was never treated with more kindness and cordiality than I was by the great and good man Abraham Lincoln, by the grace of God President of the United States for four years more. He took my little book, and with the same hand that signed the death-warrant of Slavery, he wrote as follows: `For Auntie Sojourner Truth, Oct. 29, 1864. A. Lincoln.'"
This account of their meeting was written afterward for publication in several antislavery publications, and the published conversation between them may well have been embellished. Revisionist historians have also attempted to credit Truth with having much more influence over Lincoln than was the case. However the version of Lincoln treating her disrespectfully is simply not true.
So much for newspapers then or now, huh?