{"id":29,"date":"2019-12-12T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-gender-equity\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2019-12-16T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T01:57:09","slug":"anna-julia-cooper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-1109-fall-2019-gender-equity\/anna-julia-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Julia Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

About Anna Julia Cooper<\/h2>\n
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A headshot of Anna Julia Cooper https:\/\/dh.howard.edu\/ajcooper\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anna Julia Cooper was a highly educated women who laid the foundation for many Black feminist scholars. Cooper left her home in North Carolina to attend Oberlin College. Cooper went on to continue her graduate studies at Columbia University and then earned a doctorate at the Sorbonne. Cooper fostered seven children and was focused on creating community and educating all children. Cooper taught classics, modern and ancient languages, literature, mathematics, and science well into her eighties and was the principal of the prestigious M Street School.\u00a0Due to politics, some white members of the District of Columbia’s board of education conspired against Cooper. They accused her having a sexual affair with John Love, one of her foster children.<\/p>\n

Cooper offered a counter narrative to W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington’s ideas about education. Although both men had vastly different ideas on how to educate Black Americans in the wake of reconstruction, they both saw education as a means for economic uplift.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Anna Julia Cooper was born in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Cooper graduates from Oberlin College.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Cooper delivers one of her best-known speeches, “Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race,”\u00a0at the Protestant Episcopal Church<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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1892<\/h2>\n\t\t\t
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\"\"Cooper publishes, “A Voice From the South,” which becomes a foundational text for Black feminist theory.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Cooper cofounds the “Colored Women’s League in Washington”<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Cooper becomes the principal at the M Street High School.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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A controversy leads to Cooper\u2019s dismissal from the the M Street School.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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\u00a0<\/span>Cooper graduates with a Ph.D from the Sorbonne.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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Cooper passes away in Washington D.C. at 86.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n

Gender Equity<\/h2>\n