Anna J. Cooper
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Anna J. Cooper 1858 1964. Educator, orator, & early black feminist. Graduate, St. Augustine's. Author, A Voice from the South (1892). Grave 2 1/2 blks. S.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
Born in 1858, Anna J. Cooper rose from the Reconstruction-era South to become a renowned educator, orator, and early Black feminist. A graduate of St. Augustine's in Raleigh, she published A Voice from the South in 1892, a landmark of Black feminist thought that argued the progress of the race depended on the education of its women. She lived to 1964, her grave now resting blocks from here.
Why it matters
Cooper was one of the most important Black intellectuals of her age, and her insistence that Black women's voices were essential to American democracy still echoes through the nation's civil rights tradition.
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