Anna Julia Cooper is a spectacular writer and feminist who worked racial uplift, as well as gender uplift. Anna Julia Cooper insisted that the conditions of African Americans could not change without acknowledging and rectifying the oppression of black women. Like many other black women who worked towards racial uplift, the work of Anna Julia Cooper was overlooked and passed over for many years solely because she was a woman. Cooper’s work was even denounced by W. E. B. DuBois when he quoted her work in one of his essays and neglected to cite her name. This instance is just one of many that show the disrespect that black women receive on the behalf of black leaders and black men in general. Lumsden describes an occurrence in which Frederick Douglass was asked to name a few important black women and he states “I have thus far seen no book of importance written by a negro woman and I know of no one among us who can appropriately be called famous”. Douglass’ neglect to mention any names shows that the Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, and many other black women were seen as unimportant and less than men. Black male leaders and black men who dismissed the work of black men were hypocritical to their own core mission.