Tempestuous Elements at Arena Stage
Dates: (2/16/2024 - 3/17/2024 )
Arena Stage |
1101 Sixth Street SW
Washington, DC,DC 20024
Phone: 202-488-3300
Tickets: $76 - $95
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Born into slavery in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper was a visionary Black feminist and educator in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and only the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Tempestuous Elements—the 11th in Arena Stage’s Power Play cycle—shines a light on Cooper’s tumultuous tenure as Principal of Washington, D.C.’s historic M Street School where she fought to keep Black education alive, despite the racism, gossip and sexism that threatened to consign her efforts to obscurity.
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