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First name origin & meaning:

Old French: To stay for a time; name of former slave-turned-equal-justice advocate, Sojourner Truth

Last name origin & meaning:

Americanized form of French Séjourné or Séjournant, derivatives of séjourner ‘to stay (at a place)’.

This name appears in the following lists: Black History/Civil Rights Leaders, Heroes and Heroines