Anna Julia Cooper "Status of Women in America"

I chose to study Dr. Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964). The primary source that I will focusing on is Status of Women in America. She states that over the course of American history, women have always been there to support men and their ventures who were too focused on money and power. Whether is in the hospitals binding up wounds, Queen Isabelle supporting Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, or other things for which women were not recognized. Now (aka 1892) there is a transition from the struggle of nature and forming a nation to the struggle of ideas and discovery. It is the time for women to advance in these new roles of leadership and in academia.Then she goes into a discussion of how the colored woman is a unique position because in society it seems to be the least “ascertainable and and definitive of all forces.” She is “confronted by the women question and the race problem” and the average man doesn't care about her needs. Finally, Cooper goes into the different ways colored women work behind the scenes, like giving them credit for why the GOP stood solid amongst southern black men.