Object Details
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003220 ACMA AV001346_B
- General
- Title transcribed from physical asset.
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Hutchinson, Louise Daniel (19280603-20141012)
- Names
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)
- Frelinghuysen University (Washington, D.C.).
- M Street High School (Washington, D.C.)
- Miner Teachers College
- Oberlin College
- Preparatory High School for Colored Youth (Washington, D.C.)
- St. Augustine's Normal School and Collegiate Institute
- UniversiteĢ de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne
- Wilberforce University
- Cooke, Paul P.
- Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964
- Cooper, George A. C., Reverend
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
- GrimkeĢ, Francis J. (Francis James), 1850-1937
- Hunt, Ida Gibbs, 1862-1957
- Martin-Felton, Zora
- Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- Raleigh (N.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American women
- Freedmen
- African American educators
- African American women educators
- Women
- Educators
- Education
- Religion
- Segregation
- Race
- Human Rights
- Civil rights
- Women's rights
- Civil rights leaders
- African American authors
- African American women authors
- Authors
- Social history
- Slavery
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Hutchinson, Louise Daniel (19280603-20141012)
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- Anna J. Cooper: a Voice from the South Exhibition Records
- Anna J. Cooper: a Voice from the South Exhibition Records / Series ACMA AV03-029: Anna J. Cooper: a voice from the South audiovisual records
- Biographical / Historical
- The collection, Anna J. Cooper: A Voice from the South Audiovisual Records, contains sound and video recordings of exhibit tours, gallery talks, and lectures associated with an exhibition, Anna J. Cooper: A Voice from the South. The exhibition presented the life and times of Washington, D.C. black educator and author Anna Julia Haywood Cooper through historical documents, photographs, memorabilia, and re-creations of her home and classroom settings. It was organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum and held there from February 1981 to September 1982; Louise Daniel Hutchinson served as curator. The exhibition was based on an unpublished manuscript by the late Dr. Leona Gable, Smith College; and titled after Cooper's written work, A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South.;Educator, author, and speaker Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858-1964) was born into slavery and educated at Saint Augustine's Normal School and Collegiate Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina. While teaching at St. Augustine's, she married George A. C. Cooper, who died two years later. After her husband's death, Cooper moved to Washington, D.C., attended Oberlin College, taught at Wilberforce College and M Street High School, and later went on to earn her Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Cooper taught Greek, Latin, geometry, and science; and created a path for African Americans to attend Ivy League schools. Although she taught and served as principal (1902-1906) of the M Street High School (now Dunbar High School) in Washington, D.C., her role and influence extended beyond its boundaries. Cooper was an advocate of human rights who lectured on a broad range of topics that affected blacks and women, including race relations, poverty, and gender inequality; a feminist of her day. She was a contributor to the District of Columbia's Colored Settlement House; served as president of Frelinghuysen University, which offered affordable liberal arts and professional courses for working African Americans; and wrote A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, the first book-length volume of black feminist analysis in the United States.;Educator, author, statesman, and former president of the District of Columbia Teacher's College Dr. Paul Phillips Cooke (1917-2010) was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. He attended Dunbar High School, Miner Teachers College, New York University, Catholic University of America, and Columbia University, where he received his doctorate. Cooke was married to Rose Cooke for 63 years.;Originally named Preparatory High School for Colored Youth and later known as M Street High School, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, located in Washington, D.C., was the first black public high school in the United States. During the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school with many of its teachers holding master and doctorate degrees. By the 1950s, the school was sending 80 percent of its students to college. During the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, Dunbar struggled to keep its prestigious reputation and high standards. As with many troubled urban public schools, Dunbar standards fell and some students struggle with basic reading and math. The Dunbar Legacy Lecture Series, which was held at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in the early 1980s, consisted of lectures by and about people associated with Dunbar High School.
- Extent
- 2 Video recordings (open reel, 1/2 inch)
- 1 Sound recording (audio cassette)
- Date
- circa 1981
- Custodial History
- Created for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Curator: Louise Daniel Hutchinson. Lecture Moderator: Zora Martin-Felton.
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-029, Item ACMA AV003264
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Lectures
- Citation
- The Dunbar Legacy: Dr. Sterling A. Brown Lecture, Exhibition Records AV03-029, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Genre/Form
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Lectures
- Note
- 010542 002221 003831
- Scope and Contents
- Dr. Paul Phillips Cooke speaks on the subject of Anna J. Cooper: Teacher and Human Being. He talks about Cooper's life and the time in which she lived; and her human and religious influences. Cooke, who assisted with the Cooper exhibition at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, provides an overview of Cooper's history and addresses questions from the lecture audience. Cooke also provides an overview of the history of educational institutions and schools, and the education system in Washington, D.C. He discusses civil rights, legislation changes in D.C., and how civil rights legislation affected Cooper, W. E. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington. Zora Martin-Felton introduces Cooke providing a short history of his Anacostian roots.
- Lecture. AV003264: Part 1. AV003220: Part 2. Part of Anna J. Cooper: A Voice from the South Audiovisual Records. AV003264 and AV003220: undated. AV001346: dated 19830925, audio only, contains part of (copy of) AV003220 recording.
- Series Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1554838806206-1554838806220-0
