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, a play currently on at Arena Stage, takes place at the turn of the 20th century, when a Black educator named Anna Julia Cooper found herself in the crossfire of a contentious debate about how and what Black students should learn.she was born into slavery in North Carolina five years before the Emancipation Proclamation.
As the new century dawned, a disagreement over pedagogy roiled the Black educational establishment. The scholar W.E.B. Du Bois advocated for well-rounded, liberal arts-based education, while the equally prominent Tuskegee Institute director Booker T. Washington stressed the importance of vocational studies.
“ felt that every child was owed an education, and that they should be able to make choices about their own education,” says Kia Corthron, whom Arena commissioned to write“If they wanted to be a medical doctor or a mechanic, either of those options should be open to them.” Corthron was born in Maryland and was dismayed to realize she hadn’t learned Cooper’s story earlier. “I was just shocked to find that there was this incredible Black woman who’d done great, selfless work for over 100 years, and I’d never heard of her,” she says, despite the fact that Cooper wroteAfter her principalship ended, Cooper spent a few years as a professor in Missouri, retuning to M Street School to teach Latin in 1910.
“She really loved DC, and came back to it throughout her life,” Corthron says. And while Cooper may not be a household name, her ideas continue to travel–one of her quotes adorns every US passport: “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class – it is the cause of humankind. The very birthright of humanity.”Mary Timony on Her Emotional New Album, “Untame the Tiger”Crime Is Up in DC.
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