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]

References

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

Streets of Washington, D.C.

Numbered Streets	7th Street 14th Street 16th Street 18th Street

Lettered Streets	H Street K Street M Street P Street U Street

State-named roadways	Connecticut Florida Georgia Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia Wisconsin

Border avenues and streets	Capitol Streets North East South Border Avenues Western Eastern Southern Mall Boundaries Constitution Independence

Other streets	Benning Columbia Embassy Row Jackson Klingle MacArthur Madison Martin Luther King Jr.

Circles	Anna J. Cooper Barney Benjamin Banneker Chevy Chase Columbus Dupont Garfield Grant Lincoln Memorial Logan Observatory Peace Pinehurst Randle Scott Sheridan Sherman Tenley Thomas Ward Washington Westmoreland

Squares	Farragut Franklin Freedom Lafayette Lincoln McPherson Mount Vernon Seward Stanton Union

Parkways	Clara Barton George Washington Memorial Oxon Run Rock Creek & Potomac Suitland

Expressways	9th Street 12th Street Anacostia Center Leg E Street Kenilworth Avenue Potomac River Southeast Southwest

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