Born into slavery, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper rose to become one of the best educated Black Women ever. She went on to earn a PhD at the Sorbonne in France, and excelled as an educator, university founder, author, sociologist, feminist, and an activist against all oppression. She published a seminal book, A Voice from the South, considered to be one of the first major works on feminism. Anna J Cooper died on this day in 1964 at the age of 105.
Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer when she graduated from Howard University on this day in 1872.
On this day in 1897, Marian Anderson was born. She was an American opera singer whose repertoire included spiritual, gospel, and other music to her repertoire. When she was barred from performing at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, the National Park Service organized a free concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall.
On this day in 1788, Prince Hall, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, led a group of free men from Boston to file a petition protesting the unlawful seizure of free Black men. He was an abolitionist, also a leader in the fledgling Back to Africa Movement.
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