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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

Summary

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black intellectual history, feminism and activism

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper will introduce a new generation of readers to an educator, public intellectual and community activist whose prescient insights and eloquent prose underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African-American social and political activism.

This volume 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the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois.

About the author

Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper (1858 - 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker and Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
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