“Anna Julia Cooper lived through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, women’s suffrage, the lynchings and legal segregation of Jim Crow, the era of Betty Friedan’s ‘Feminine Mystique,’ and the renewal of the Civil Rights movement. As an African American woman of the 19th and 20th centuries, she knew firsthand that the struggles for human liberty and equality did not end … Continue reading "Women’s History Month Anna Julia Cooper"