COOPER, Anna Julia 1856-1964

PERSONAL:

Born August 10, 1856, in Raleigh, NC; died February 27, 1964, in Washington, DC; daughter of George Washington and Hannah (a slave; maiden name, Stanley) Haywood; married George A. C. Cooper (a minister), 1877.

CAREER:

Oberlin Academy, teacher; Wilberforce University, head of modern languages department, c. 1884; St. Augustine's Normal and Collegiate Institute, Raleigh, NC, instructor in Latin, German, and mathematics, 1885-86; "M" Street (later Paul Laurence Dunbar) High School, Washington, DC, teacher, 1887-1930, principal, 1902-06, teacher of Latin, 1910-30; Lincoln University, Missouri, chair, department of languages, 1906-10; Frelinghuysen University (later Frelinghuysen Group of Schools for Colored Working People), Washington, DC, cofounder, 1907, president, 1930-41.

MEMBER:

American Negro Academy.

WRITINGS:

A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South, Aldine (Xenia, OH), 1892.

The Social Settlement: What It Is, and What It Does, Murray Brothers (Washington, DC), 1913.

L'Attitude de la France a l'égard de l'esclavage pendant la Révolution, Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel (Paris, France), 1925, translation by Frances Richardson Keller published as Slavery and the French Revolutionists, Mellen (Lewiston, NY), 1988.

PRIVATELY PRINTED

Legislative Measures concerning Slavery in the United States, [Washington, DC], 1942.

Equality of Races and the Democratic Movement, [Washington, DC], 1945.

Personal Recollections of the Grimké Family and Life and Writings of Charlotte Forten Grimké, 1951.

The Third Step: An Autobiography, c. 1950.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, May 1, 1998, Jeris Cassel, "The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper," p. 123.

NWSA Journal, fall, 1999, Frances Richardson Keller, "An Educational Controversy: Anna Julia Cooper's Vision of Resolution," p. 49, Christina Greene, "The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper, Including: A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters," p. 172.*