Symposium on Liberal Education and African American History

Symposium on Liberal Education and African American History: Anna Julia Cooper featuring Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner and Dr. Carolivia Herron
Anna Julia Cooper spent the majority of her 105 years on earth as an educator in Washington, DC. She was born into slavery in 1858, then lived with a conviction and power that led her to a transformative life fighting for the rights of women, people of color, and all under oppression. She was equipped with wisdom and knowledge of the true, the good and the beautiful . This classical education she fought daily to obtain helped liberate her; she in turn insisted on providing the same education to her own students despite the pressure to comply and deny both African American and female students such opportunity in favor of vocational training.
55 years after her passing, and 160 years removed from her birth, education in the liberal arts remains an "inappropriate" approach in its aspirational goals for students of color.
The Symposium is to provide a venue and occasion to discuss Dr. Cooper's life, how the liberal arts impacted her life, and how she desired the same for generations to follow.
"Our money, our schools, our governments, our free institutions, our systems of religion and forms of creeds are all first and last to be judged by this standard: what sort of men and women do they grow? How are men and women being shaped and molded by this system of training, under this or that form of government, by this or that standard of moral action? You propose a new theory of education; what sort of men does it turn out?"
-Anna Julia Cooper, “A Voice From the South"
Beginning in 2010, and coinciding with the opening of Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Capitol Hill, the College has hosted an annual Constitution Day Celebration in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787.
The program-which features speeches, debates, and roundtable discussions-explores the continuing relevance of the Founders’ Constitution for American politics today.

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