“The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country... She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem, and is as yet an unknown or an unacknowledged factor in both.”

About Anna Julia Cooper

Author • American

Anna Julia Cooper was a distinguished American author, educator, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Born into slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina, she persevered to earn a...