2009 - Anna Julia Cooper Plate Block Of 4 44c Postage Stamps - Sc# - 4408 - MNH, OG - CX851

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black Liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
Born: August 10, 1858, Raleigh, NC
Died: February 27, 1964, Washington, D.C.
Known for: 4th black woman, and 1st woman from the District of Columbia, to receive Ph.D
Education: University of Paris, Columbia University, Oberlin College, Saint Augustine’s University, Dunbar High School
Quotes:
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

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