Anna Julia Cooper Biography

Occup.	Educator
From	USA
Born	August 10, 1858
Died	February 27, 1964
Aged	105 years

Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) was an American educator, scholar, as well as civil rights lobbyist who devoted her life to advertising education and learning and equality for African American females. She was born into slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1858, and spent her very early years working as a domestic slave.

Cooper's parents were both enslaved, however her daddy had the ability to buy his liberty in 1844. He became a successful business person as well as utilized his sources to sustain his household as well as fund Cooper's education. Despite dealing with discrimination and exclusion from several schools as a result of her race and sex, Cooper was figured out to obtain an education and learning.

In 1877, she signed up in the newly established Saint Augustine's Normal School as well as Collegiate Institute in Raleigh, where she succeeded academically. She went on to participate in Oberlin College in Ohio, earning a Bachelor's degree in maths and a Master's degree in history.

After completing her education and learning, Cooper became a teacher and principal at the M Street High School in Washington, D.C., which was recognized for its rigorous curriculum as well as high academic requirements. She additionally became involved in the social as well as political problems of the day, signing up with companies such as the National Association of Colored Women and also the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Cooper was a prolific writer and also scholar, releasing countless write-ups and also books on topics ranging from education and advocacy to ideology and faith. Her most renowned job, "A Voice from the South", was published in 1892 and also argued for the importance of education as well as the advancement of women, specifically African American females.

Throughout her life, Cooper continued to be committed to advancing the reason for civil rights, speaking out against racism, sexism, and also fascism. She remained to instruct and also talk on these concerns well right into her 90s, as well as her tradition has actually affected generations of activists and also scholars.

Anna Julia Cooper passed away in 1964 at the age of 105, leaving behind a tradition of scholarship, campaigning for, as well as advocacy that remains to inspire individuals today.

Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Anna.

Related authors: Saint Augustine (Saint), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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12 Famous quotes by Anna Julia Cooper

"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"

"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him"

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

"Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy"

"Life must be something more than dilettante speculation"

"It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice"

"Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too"

"If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better"

"I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without"

"Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey"

"A race cannot be purified from without"

"The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart"