Description:
Published in 1892, A Voice from the South (1892) is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era.
Brief description: Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964) was born in Raleigh, N.C., and spent her early life as a slave in the home of George Washington Haywood. At age nine she began a formal education intended to train blacks to become educators of former slaves. She received an M.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne.