Coppin, Fanny (Muriel) J(ackson) 1837-1913
COPPIN, Fanny (Muriel) J(ackson) 1837-1913
PERSONAL:
Born Fanny Jackson, 1837, in Washington, DC; died January 21, 1913, in Philadelphia, PA; daughter of Lucy Jackson (a slave); married Levi Jenkins Coppin (a bishop), 1881. Education: Attended Rhode Island State Normal School, c. 1859; Oberlin College, graduated, 1865. Religion: African Methodist Episcopal.
CAREER:
Emancipated slave and social worker. Worked as domestic servant in New Bedford, MA, and Newport, RI, and as a piano teacher and adult educator in Oberlin, OH, until 1865. Institute for Colored Youth, Philadelphia, PA, teacher and principal of female department, c. 1865-69, principal of institute, 1869-1902, also founder of industrial department, 1889; Bethel Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, teacher and missionary, 1902-03; Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of African Methodist Episcopal Church, president of local Women's Mite Missionary Society, then as national president. Public lecturer and fund-raiser; cofounder of home for destitute women, 1888; Women's Exchange and Girls' Home, founder, 1894.
MEMBER:
National Association of Colored Women (vice president, 1897).
AWARDS, HONORS:
Honors included the naming of the Fanny Jackson Coppin Girls Hall at Wilberforce Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, and Coppin State College in Baltimore, MD.
WRITINGS:
Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching, A.M.E. Book Concern (Philadelphia, PA), 1913, reprinted, G. K. Hall (New York, NY), 1995.
Author of column "Women's Department" in Christian Recorder, beginning 1878. Contributor to periodicals.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
BOOKS
Coppin, Fanny J., Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching, A.M.E. Book Concern (Philadelphia, PA), 1913, reprinted, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1987.
Coppin, Levi J., Unwritten History, 1919, reprinted, Negro Universities Press (New York, NY), 1968.
Notable Black American Women, Book 1, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
Perkins, Linda M., Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1865-1902, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1987.
Religious Leaders of America, 2nd edition, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1999.
PERIODICALS
New York Age, November 8, 1890.