A Voice from the South - Anna Julia Cooper

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A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper, 1892, United States, ESSAYS

"Alice Julia Cooper was an extraordinary woman—a high school principal, the fourth African-American woman to receive a doctorate, a woman who spoke her mind eloquently and forcefully. Writing more than one hundred years ago, she argued that just as white men cannot fully understand the consciousness of black men, neither can black men completely comprehend black women's experience—and that it is black women who mark the progression of society: "Only when the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'".."

(E.B., p. 70)