PEOPLE: America celebrates the achievements of people of color in the fields of education and defense
AGN.News Team
December 15, 2022
BOSTON (AGN.News) – America has always valued its citizens who work hard to become achievers. While it has not always known exactly how to show that appreciation, America has always known African Americans will deliver when called.
America’s need for African American women to be educators and lead the most prestigious universities to the first woman appointed President of Harvard University, African Americans have answered the call to service and has helped build America by example and education.
Anna Cooper: Doctor of Philosophy
African American women have excelled in the field of education, both as teachers and academia.
The first African American scholar we’re profiling is Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964).
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, who lived 105 years, 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 went on to receive a world-class education and claim power and prestige in academic and social circles. In 1924, she received her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the Sorbonne, University of Paris.
Cooper became the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. 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. Her first book, A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South, is widely acknowledged as one of the first articulations of Black feminism, giving Cooper the often-used title of “the Mother of Black Feminism”.
Claudine Gay to lead Harvard
The history of African American women have always included those who excelled in the field of education, both as teachers and academia. The second scholar we’re profiling is Claudine Gay.
On Thursday, December 15, 2022, Harvard University announced that Claudine Gay will become its 30th president, making her the first Black person and the second woman to lead the Ivy League school, with her term beginning on July 1, 2023.
Claudine Gay is a political scientist and university administrator. She serves as Harvard’s Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies.
She is also Edgerley Family Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is vice president of the Midwest Political Science Association.
Her father worked for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Saudi Arabia. Her mother was a registered nurse. Gay attended Phillips Exeter Academy, then studied economics at Stanford University, receiving the Anna Laura Myers Prize for best undergraduate thesis in economics.
She graduated from Stanford University in 1992. Gay then earned her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in 1998 from Harvard, winning the university’s Toppan Prize for best dissertation in political science.
Upon accepting her new position Gay said, “I love this place!” she added, “People are Harvard’s institutional strength. I’m excited to take on this role because I believe in them and I want a Harvard that matches their ambition and promise.
African Americans in the Civil War
African Americans served honorably in the American Civil War. 186,097 Black men joined the Union Army. This included 7,122 officers and 178,975 enlisted soldiers. Approximately 20,000 Black sailors served in the Union Navy and formed a large percentage of many ships’ crews.
Later in the war, many regiments were recruited and organized as the United States Colored Troops, which reinforced the Northern forces substantially during the conflict’s last two years.
Both Northern Free Negro and Southern runaway slaves joined the fight. Throughout the course of the war, Black soldiers served in forty major battles and hundreds of more minor skirmishes. Sixteen African Americans received the Medal of Honor.
The history of America is a story of its diverse population, their sacrifices, their families, and their devotion to this great country. Today, many thousands of people of color are actively working to support the efforts to build “a more perfect union.”
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