| LC control no. | n 86109374 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Coppin, Fanny Jackson |
| Variant(s) | Jackson-Coppin, Fanny Jackson, Fanny M. Coppin, Frances Jackson Coppin, Fannie Jackson |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | New Bedford (Mass.) Newport (R.I.) Bristol (R.I. : Town) Oberlin (Ohio) Philadelphia (Pa.) Cape Town (South Africa) |
| Birth date | 1837 |
| Death date | 1913-01-21 |
| Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Affiliation | Rhode Island State Normal School Oberlin Collegiate Institute Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.) National Association of Colored Women (U.S.) African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Profession or occupation | Educators Civic leaders Principals |
| Found in | Perkins, L.M. Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1865-1902, 1987 Her Reminiscences of school life, and hints on teaching, 1987: CIP t.p. (Fanny Jackson-Coppin) Institute for Colored Youth Philadelphia ... 1867: t.p. (Fanny M. Jackson, principal) Reminiscences of school life and hints on teaching, c1994: CIP t.p. (Frances Jackson Coppin) Wikipedia, July 23, 2007 (Fanny Jackson Coppin; b. Oct. 15, 1837; d. Jan. 21, 1913; African-American educator and missionary) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed January 04, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Coppin, Fanny Jackson; slave, women's rights advocate, African Methodist Episcopal Lay Leader, civic leader, educational institution official; born in 1837 in Washington, District of Columbia; graduated with AB degree from the Oberlin collegiate department (1860-1865); principal of the female department of the prestigious Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) in Philadelphia (1865); chosen to head the entire Institute for Colored Youth (1869); began column titled "Women's Department" in the Christian Recorder, the newspaper of the AME Church (1878); member of board of managers of the Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored People in Philadelphia (1881-1913); vice president of the National Association of Colored Women (1897); died 21 January 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) African American women, 1993: pages 127-128 (Fannie Jackson Coppin; Fanny Coppin, born a slave. Her aunt worked to purchase her freedom. Moved to live with relatives in New Bedford, Mass., then to Newport, RI. Worked as a domestic there until she enrolled in the Rhode Island State Normal School in Bristol in 1859. A year later she enrolled in Oberlin College, from where she graduated in 1865 with a BA. Appointed principal at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, first of the Female Department in 1865, then of the entire school in 1869. Retired from ICY in 1902 and moved that year with her husband to Cape Town, South Africa, where he was a bishop in the AME. They returned to Philadelphia in 1904.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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