Anna Julia Cooper on the porch of her home at 201 T Street NW, 1934

ID: 3910 ~ Source: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - Anna J. Cooper, Trailblazing Educator

Anna Julia Cooper on the porch of her home at 201 T Street NW, 1934

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - Anna J. Cooper, Trailblazing Educator

Civil Rights Tour: Education - Anna J. Cooper, Trailblazing Educator

These words, written by Anna Julia Hayward Cooper (1858-1964), who lived in LeDroit Park for 40 years, are found inscribed in the pages of every U.S. passport along with quotations by eleven other famous American authors. Cooper, the only woman of…