A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black intellectual history, feminism and activism

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper will introduce a new generation of readers to an educator, public intellectual and community activist whose prescient insights and eloquent prose underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African-American social and political activism.

This volume brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Shirley Moody-Turner (editor) is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University. Through a Center for Humanities and Information grant, she helped support the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in digitizing the Anna Julia Cooper papers. She is currently the editor for African American Literature in Transition 1900-1910 (Cambridge University Press).