I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.


The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper (ed. 2000)


I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and...

I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and...

I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and...

I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and...