Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964) was a writer, teacher, and activist who advocated for access to education for Black people. Her book A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892) is a classic Black feminist text. In 1924, she became the fourth Black woman in the U.S. to earn a doctoral degree and the first Black woman to earn a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne in Paris.