ANNA J. COOPER, PH.D.
1859-1964
EDUCATOR, AUTHOR, POET AND
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR
EARLY ADVOCATE OF EQUAL RIGHTS
FOR BLACKS AND WOMEN
A GRADUATE OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE
ERECTED 1979
Anna Haywood was the daughter of a slave woman, Hannah Stanley, and her white master. When she was 10 years old she started instruction at St. Augustine's Normal School and upon completion she remained as a teacher. She married George Cooper in 1877 but he died just two years later. She never remarried and had no children. She attended Oberlin College and earned a bachelors degree in 1884, taking the "Gentlemen's Course" rather than one for females. She taught at Wilberforce University and St. Augustine, but returned to Oberlin and earned a masters degree in mathematics in 1887.
Anna Cooper taught for many years in Washington D.C. She entered the doctoral program at Columbia University in 1914 and later transfered to the University of Paris (Sorbonne) where she earned a Ph.D in 1924.
She was a writer and poet. Her first book "A Voice from the South: By a Woman from the South" was published in 1892
"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." - Anna Julia Cooper
In 2009, the United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp in Anna Cooper's honor.
∼Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) was the 1st African American woman in history to receive her Ph.D. in History & Romance Languages (University of Paris, the Sorbonne, 1925). She is widely regarded as one of the 1st writers of Black feminist thought. #WomensHistoryMonth #Trailblazers
1859-1964
EDUCATOR, AUTHOR, POET AND
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR
EARLY ADVOCATE OF EQUAL RIGHTS
FOR BLACKS AND WOMEN
A GRADUATE OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE
ERECTED 1979
Anna Haywood was the daughter of a slave woman, Hannah Stanley, and her white master. When she was 10 years old she started instruction at St. Augustine's Normal School and upon completion she remained as a teacher. She married George Cooper in 1877 but he died just two years later. She never remarried and had no children. She attended Oberlin College and earned a bachelors degree in 1884, taking the "Gentlemen's Course" rather than one for females. She taught at Wilberforce University and St. Augustine, but returned to Oberlin and earned a masters degree in mathematics in 1887.
Anna Cooper taught for many years in Washington D.C. She entered the doctoral program at Columbia University in 1914 and later transfered to the University of Paris (Sorbonne) where she earned a Ph.D in 1924.
She was a writer and poet. Her first book "A Voice from the South: By a Woman from the South" was published in 1892
"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." - Anna Julia Cooper
In 2009, the United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp in Anna Cooper's honor.
∼Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) was the 1st African American woman in history to receive her Ph.D. in History & Romance Languages (University of Paris, the Sorbonne, 1925). She is widely regarded as one of the 1st writers of Black feminist thought. #WomensHistoryMonth #Trailblazers
ANNA J. COOPER, PH.D.
1859-1964
EDUCATOR, AUTHOR, POET AND
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR
EARLY ADVOCATE OF EQUAL RIGHTS
FOR BLACKS AND WOMEN
A GRADUATE OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE
ERECTED 1979
Anna Haywood was the daughter of a slave woman, Hannah Stanley, and her white master. When she was 10 years old she started instruction at St. Augustine's Normal School and upon completion she remained as a teacher. She married George Cooper in 1877 but he died just two years later. She never remarried and had no children. She attended Oberlin College and earned a bachelors degree in 1884, taking the "Gentlemen's Course" rather than one for females. She taught at Wilberforce University and St. Augustine, but returned to Oberlin and earned a masters degree in mathematics in 1887.
Anna Cooper taught for many years in Washington D.C. She entered the doctoral program at Columbia University in 1914 and later transfered to the University of Paris (Sorbonne) where she earned a Ph.D in 1924.
She was a writer and poet. Her first book "A Voice from the South: By a Woman from the South" was published in 1892
"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." - Anna Julia Cooper
In 2009, the United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp in Anna Cooper's honor.
∼Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) was the 1st African American woman in history to receive her Ph.D. in History & Romance Languages (University of Paris, the Sorbonne, 1925). She is widely regarded as one of the 1st writers of Black feminist thought. #WomensHistoryMonth #Trailblazers
1859-1964
EDUCATOR, AUTHOR, POET AND
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR
EARLY ADVOCATE OF EQUAL RIGHTS
FOR BLACKS AND WOMEN
A GRADUATE OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE
ERECTED 1979
Anna Haywood was the daughter of a slave woman, Hannah Stanley, and her white master. When she was 10 years old she started instruction at St. Augustine's Normal School and upon completion she remained as a teacher. She married George Cooper in 1877 but he died just two years later. She never remarried and had no children. She attended Oberlin College and earned a bachelors degree in 1884, taking the "Gentlemen's Course" rather than one for females. She taught at Wilberforce University and St. Augustine, but returned to Oberlin and earned a masters degree in mathematics in 1887.
Anna Cooper taught for many years in Washington D.C. She entered the doctoral program at Columbia University in 1914 and later transfered to the University of Paris (Sorbonne) where she earned a Ph.D in 1924.
She was a writer and poet. Her first book "A Voice from the South: By a Woman from the South" was published in 1892
"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." - Anna Julia Cooper
In 2009, the United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp in Anna Cooper's honor.
∼Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) was the 1st African American woman in history to receive her Ph.D. in History & Romance Languages (University of Paris, the Sorbonne, 1925). She is widely regarded as one of the 1st writers of Black feminist thought. #WomensHistoryMonth #Trailblazers
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