Published in 1892, A Voice from the South (1892) is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era. Born a slave, Anna Julia Haywood Coop
Regarded as the first voice of black feminism, this collection of essays focuses on racial progress and women's rights. Author Anna Julia Cooper, one of the most prominent African-American scholars in
Anna Julia Cooper's dissertation, "L'Attitude de la France a l'egard de l'esclavage pendant la revolution," offered a bold interpretation of the French Revolution. In it, she examined the relations be
