Today In Black History
Fanny Jackson Coppin: Black History Facts You Should Know!
Issue #435 Black History Monday, December 11, 2023
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Today’s Black WOW!
As a retired educator of all grades from PreK - University Levels, I love to highlight Black educators throughout American History.
Fanny Jackson Coppin (October 15, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an American educator, missionary for the AME Church, and lifelong advocate for female higher education. Jackson Coppin was one of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, she served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, and became the first African-American school superintendent in the United States.
In 1926, a Baltimore teacher training school was named the Fanny Jackson Coppin Normal School and is now named Coppin State University.
Today in Black History
- In 1872, P.B.S. Pinchback became the first African-American governor by taking office in Louisiana.
- In 1878, the British high commissioner presented an ultimatum to the Zulu Kingdom to submit to British rule or face war.
- In 1917, thirteen Black soldiers were hanged for participating in the Houston riot.
- In 1917, it was reported that thirty-seven Black reporters were lynched.
- In 1961, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction of sixteen sit-in students who had been arrested in Baton Rouge.
- In 2022, Karen Bass was sworn in by Vice-President and former California Senator Kamala Harris as the first female mayor of Los Angeles.
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