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(WOMEN'S HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Anna Julia Cooper. A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South. Frontispiece portrait. [4], 304 pages. 8vo, original two-toned publisher's gilt cloth, top part of backstrip coming detached; front hinge split, front free endpaper detached, small chip in lower margin of pages 37-70. Xenia, OH, 1892
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964) was born into slavery, spent her early years in Raleigh, NC, graduated from Oberlin College in 1884, and earned a master's degree in mathematics there four years later--one of the first two Black women in America to earn the M.A. She moved to Washington, where she helped found the Colored Women's League. "A Voice from the South," her first book, was an important early expression of Black feminism, arguing that womanhood was "a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race," and that higher education was the means of reaching that goal.
Cooper received her doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Paris in 1924, at the age of 66--and lived for another four decades. Afro-Americana 2699; Blockson 4288.
