Full Name: Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
Born: 1858
Died: 1964
Hometown: Raleigh, North Caroline, USA
Fave Subject: Right and Wrong, Equality, Power, Education, Freedom, Reason and Logic
Career Highlights:
- received a scholarship at the age of ten
- one of few women to be allowed to study with men
- one of the first African American women to earn a degree
- wrote one of the first books about black Feminism
- lived to be 105 years old (many years of big ideas)
Big Question:
Why is it important to include everyone in the discovery of new knowledge?