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HER RARE FIRST BOOK (FEMINISM.) COOPER, ANNA JULIA. A Voice from the South. By a Black Woman of the South. Portrait frontispiece. Small 8vo, original red and tan cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine; some discoloration to the two-toned cloth. Xenia, OH: Aldine Printing House, 1892
first edition, rare. Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), educator, feminist, and activist, was born of a slave father and a free mother in Raleigh, N.C. She attended Oberlin, and later studied in Paris and at Columbia University. She received a doctorate from Howard University in 1925. Cooper declared herself to be a representative black "voice from the South," and a feminist. She felt that the feminist/suffragist movement had overlooked the black woman. Her life spanned an incredible 105 years, from the period of slavery to the modern civil rights era. Blockson 4288, Williams (American Black Women) page 6, Gates (African American Lives), pages 190-191.
