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[Anna Julia Haywood Cooper]

Educator, 1964

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on August 10, c. 1859, to an enslaved woman and a white man, presumably her mother’s master. An academically gifted child, she received a scholarship to attend St. Augustine Normal School and Collegiate Institute, founded by the Episcopal Church to educate African American teachers and clergy. There she became an Episcopalian. After forcing her way into a Greek class designed for male theology students, Anna Julia later married the instructor, George A.C. Cooper, the second African American ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in North Carolina.

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