Anna J. Cooper Circle

Anna J. Cooper Circle
Anna J. Cooper Circle
Location
LeDroit Park, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38°54′57.4″N 77°0′56.7″W / 38.915944°N 77.015750°W / 38.915944; -77.015750
Roads at
junction		 3rd Street NW
T Street NW
Construction
Type Traffic circle
Maintained by DDOT

Anna J. Cooper Circle is a traffic circle and park at the intersection of 3rd and T Streets, Northwest, in the historic LeDroit Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C.[1] In 1983, the circle was named in honor of Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858–1964), an author, educator, feminist, and influential African American scholar who once lived in LeDroit Park.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ United States Congress (1986), United States Congressional Serial Set, United States Government Printing Office, p. 92
  2. ↑ Margaret Supplee Smith; Emily Herring Wilson (1999), North Carolina Women: Making History, University of North Carolina Press, p. 333, ISBN 0-8078-2463-1


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