In A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper, a scholar born into slavery, delivers one of the most powerful statements of intellectual and social emancipation in American history. Written during the rise of Jim Crow, this collection of essays argues that education and moral leadership—especially by women—are the keys to collective progress. Cooper’s work bridges the philosophies of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and W.E.B. Du Bois, prefiguring later movements in Black feminism, civi...

Published in 1892, A Voice from the South 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 Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent member of the black community in Washington, D.C., serving as principal at M Street High School, during which time she wrote A Voice from the South. In it, she engages a variety of issues, ...

Figure majeure mais encore trop méconnue de la pensée féministe afro-américaine, Anna J. Cooper propose dans Une voix du Sud un texte fondateur qui articule brillamment questions de race, de genre, d'éducation et de justice sociale. Publié en 1892, ce livre résonne d'une manière saisissante aujourd'hui : il éclaire les héritages intellectuels des femmes noires aux États-Unis et dévoile une pensée d'une modernité impressionnante, posant les bases de ce que l'on nommera plus tard l'intersect...

This collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African-American history -Manning Marable, Columbia University

A Voice from the South by Anna J. Cooper is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: To Bishop Benjamin William Arnett, With profound regard for his heroic devotion to God and the Race, both in Church and in St...

Published in 1892, A Voice from the South 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 Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent member of the black community in Washington, D.C., serving as principal at M Street High School, during which time she wrote A Voice from the South. In it, she engages a v...

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South is the first book by American author, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper.The book advanced a vision of self-determination through education and social uplift for African-American women. Its central thesis was that the educational, moral, and spiritual progress of Black women would improve the general standing of the entire African-American community.

**A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her NameWinner of the American Library Association Award for Best Historical MaterialsA Penguin Classic**The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the ...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

A Voice from the South was published in 1892 by Anna Julia Cooper, an educator who was one of the first two African-American women to be awarded a master's degree. Since then it has been recognized as one of the first works of Black feminist theory.Setting forth a perspective that would be described as "intersectional" in contemporary terms, Cooper explores her own lived experience as an educated African-American woman, and advocates for the education of African-American women as a necessa...

“A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published.” —Robert Carr, George Mason UniversityFirst published in 1892, ‘A Voice from the South’ is a groundbreaking collection of essays and speeches by Anna Julia Cooper, one of the most prominent African-American scholars and activists of the 19th century. Blending intellectual depth with moral urgency, Cooper presents a compelling argument for the education and empowerment of Black ...

**A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her NameA Penguin Classic**The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and sel...