Anna Julia Cooper Historian

Gender: Female
Citizenship: United States
Born: Aug 10, 1858
Died: Feb 27, 1964

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an American author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her PhD in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924, Cooper became the fourth African-American woman to earn a doctoral degree. She was also a prominent member of Washington, D.C.'s African-American community.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

God