Members of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church met at the grave marker of Anna Julia Cooper in City Cemetery in Raleigh on February 22nd. The Feast Day observance, involves a yearly cemetery visit by church members and guests to discuss the life of Dr. Cooper, followed by Eucharist at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church.

Dr. Cooper (1858-1964) was an educator, speaker, author and activist. She attended St. Augustine’s Normal School as a girl, and went on to earn a BA from Oberlin College. and receive a PhD from the University of Paris, the fourth Black woman to do so. After she died at age 105, the US Postal Service commemorated a stamp in her honor.

Pictured at the 2017 event above (left to right), Reverand Joyce Cunningham, Mrs. Donna Haywood, Mrs. Pat Johnson, Mrs. Edna Rich-Ballentine, Mrs. Enid Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Bowman, Reverand Jemonde Taylor.