August 10, 1858 – Author and educator Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the fourth African American woman to earn her Ph.D. in 1925. She received her doctorate in history from the Sorbonne in Paris upon defending her dissertation titled “The Attitude of France on the Question of Slavery Between 1789 and 1848.” (Photo Courtesy: cooperproject.org)