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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, 1858-1964
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, who was born into slavery and helped pioneer a path for educated black women when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1884. She published her first book, A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, in 1892, wherein she voiced radical ideas of inclusion and equality.
H.M. Platt, 1884 |