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About Transcribe Cooper
Which issues inspired Anna Julia Cooper’s lifelong activism? How did Cooper’s personal correspondence differ from her public writing? Who did she write to and why? What motivated, challenged and inspired her? You can help researchers discover the hidden aspects of Anna Julia Cooper’s life's work by transcribing her papers.
This interdisciplinary research project has the potential to reshape our understanding of Black political thought at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Her 1892 text, A Voice from the South, stands as a monument to her intellectual contributions and thought, but much of Cooper’s writing remained unpublished in her lifetime and is underexamined in ours.
Is the voice revealed in Anna Julia Cooper’s papers different from the one we think we know? How will our understanding of this iconoclastic Black feminist activist change by examining this archival material? What kinds of secrets are waiting to be uncovered?
