Fanny Jackson Coppin [SEP] sex or gender
Fanny Jackson Coppin
Fanny Jackson Coppin (January 8, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an African-American educator and missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education.
Life.
Born into slavery, Fanny/Fannie Jackson's freedom was purchased by her aunt at age 12. Fanny Jackson spent the rest of her youth working as a servant for author George Henry Calvert, studying at every opportunity. In 1860, she enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio, the first college in the United States to
Coppin's declining health forced her to return to Philadelphia, and she died on January 21, 1913. In 1926, a Baltimore teacher training school was named the Fanny Jackson Coppin Normal School (now Coppin State University).
External links.
- Fanny Jackson Coppin at Pagewise
- Fanny Jackson Copping Club, blackpast.org
- "Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching", 1913