The book, "A Voice from the South" (1892), by Anna Julia Cooper has been credited as one of the first pieces of literature that expresses a black feminist perspective. Cooper's contemporary, writer and activist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, proposed "some of the most important questions of race, gender, and the work of Reconstruction in the nineteenth century". According to Harper, white women needed suffrage for education, but "Black women need the vote, not as a form of education, but as a form of protection". In the 1890s Ida B. Wells, a politically driven activist, became famous for seeking to find the truth about the lynching of black men, a subject that many white feminists avoided.