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Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race
Read before the colored clergy of the Episcopal Church in 1886: Cooper argues that no race rises higher than its women, indicts the Church for training priests while neglecting Black women and girls, and issues the book's most famous sentence — “when and where I enter... then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
'When and where I enter'Uplift through womenThe Church's neglect of Black womenChristianity and the ideal of woman