Acknowledgments

1 Anna Julia Cooper: The Colored Woman's Office

Charles Lemert

I. The Colored Woman's Office: A Voice from the South, Part 1

2 Our Raison d'Etre (1892)

3 Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1886)

4 The Higher Education of Women (1890-1891)

5 "Woman versus the Indian" (1891-1892)

6 The Status of Woman in America (1892)

II. Race and Culture: A Voice from the South, Part 2

7 Has America a Race Problem? If So, How Can It Best Be Solved? (1892)

8 The Negro As Presented in American Literature (1892)

9 What Are We Worth? (1892)

10 The Gain from a Belief (1892)

III. The Range of Cooper's Voice: Feminism, Social Service, Education, and Race Politics

11 The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation: A Response to Fannie Barrier Williams (1893)

12 The Ethics of the Negro Question (1902)

13 The Social Settlement: What It Is, and What It Does (1913)

14 Sketches from a Teacher's Notebook: Loss of Speech through Isolation (1923?)

15 Foreword to Le Pelerinage de Charlemagne (1925)

16 The Humor of Teaching (1930)

17 My Racial Philosophy (1930)

18 The Negro's Dialect (1930s?)

19 On Education (1930s?)

20 Angry Saxons and Negro Education (1938)

21 Hitler and the Negro (1942?)

IV. World Politics, Race, and Slavery: The Historical Studies

22 The Social Conditions of the French-American Colonies: The Class Structure (1925)

23 Black Slavery and the French Nation (1925)

24 Equality of Races and the Democratic Movement (1925)

25 Legislative Measures concerning Slavery in the United States: 1787-1850 (1925)

V. Reflections on Her Life: Memoirs, Occasional Writings, Letters: 1925-1958

26 The Early Years in Washington: Reminiscences of Life with the Grimkes (1951)

27 The Third Step: Cooper's Memoir of the Sorbonne Doctorate (1945-1950?)

28 Selected Letters and Other Writings (1925-1958)

29 The Life of Anna Julia Cooper: A Chronology

Index

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