"One cannot consent to creep
when one has an impulse to
soar."
~Helen Keller

Anna Julia Cooper born this day
in 1858. A scholar, social activisit,
college president, and writer. The
first African-American Feminist, Ms.
Cooper first book published in 1892,
"A Voice from the South by a Black
Woman of the South." She called
for social change; a fledgling feminsit
movement did little for their minority
women. Ms. Cooper was born into
slavery and lived to see the birth
of the Civil Rights Movement.

This day in 1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
was sworn in to serve on the Supreme
Court.