WIH Dr. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper Mystery Cache
WIH Dr. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
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When I was in High School, I took an English class that focused on Women in History. I thought it was a good time to have some caches related to powerful and or influential women.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. You need to solve the puzzle. All information needed to solve the puzzle is on this page. This cache is to focus on Women In History (WIH) that lead the way for us all. Information pulled from WIKI
Dr. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black Liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Born into slavery in 1858, Cooper triumphed against the odds of gender and race to receive a world-class education and claim power and prestige in academic and social circles.[3] Upon receiving her PhD in history from the Sorbonne in 1924, Cooper became the fourth African-American woman to earn a doctoral degree.[a][4] She was also a prominent member of Washington, D.C.'s African-American community and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Cooper made contributions to social science fields, particularly in sociology. She is sometimes called "the mother of Black Feminism
• 1858: Born into slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1877: Marries George A. C. Cooper.
• 1879: Husband dies and Anna is widowed at 21 years of age.
• 1887: Begins teaching math and Latin at the Preparatory School.
• 1891: Participates in the weekly "Saturday Circle" or "Saturday Nighters" salon of Black Washingtonians
• 1892: Founded the Colored Women's League with Helen Appo Cook.
• 1893: Co-hosts anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells with Frederick Douglass and Lucy Ellen Moten
• 1893: Becomes only woman elected to the American Negro Academy
• 1893: Attends the World's Congress of Representative Women and reads paper entitled "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation"
• 1900: Attends the First Pan-African Conference in London, reads paper entitled "The Negro Problem in America", and joins the executive committee.
• 1901: Becomes second black female principal of M. Street High School
• 1925: Earns doctorate from University of Paris, purchases home in LeDroit Park, begins hosting monthly "Les Amis de la Langue Francaise"
• 1929: Becomes second president of Frelinghuysen University in Washington, D.C
• 1940: Becomes registrar of Frelinghuysen University and hosts classes in her LeDroit home.
1964: February 27, Anna J. Cooper dies in Washington D.C. at the age of 105.
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All the information needed to solve the puzzle is on this page.
N 43° 17.ABC W 071° 33.DEF'
A= Dr. Cooper Died 19DA.
B= Dr. Cooper was born August B0
C=Founded the Colored Women's League with Helen Appo Cook in 189C
D=Dr. Cooper Died 19DA
E=Received her PhD in history from the Sorbonne in 192E
F-189F: Becomes only woman elected to the American Negro Academy: Take the number for F and multiply it by 2 to get the answer
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