Ann Nixson Cooper

Spelman’s Independent Scholars: SIS Oral History Project

Filmed in 2008 at her home.

Spelman’s Independent Scholars: SIS Oral History Project

Filmed in 2009 a year later at the age of 107.

Throughout our history in this nation — indeed before we were brought to these shores — older women in our families and in our communities are griots and sages, seers and prophets whom we are taught to honor and revere. Their stories teach us about values and beliefs that shaped their reality and, in immeasurable ways, impact our own. For reason, then, we see their memories, anchored deep in the soil of wisdom, as cherished treasure. It is this truth, as old as time itself, that undergirds the SIS Oral History Project.  As explained by Danielle Phillips, Spelman Independent Scholar

More information is available about SIS Oral History Project at http://www.spelman.edu/sisoralhistory/