Fannie Jackson Coppin

Fannie Jackson Coppin  

She wrote to Fredrick Douglas:

 “I feel sometimes like a person to whom in childhood was entrusted some sacred flame…This is the desire to see my race lifted out of the mire of ignorance, weakness and degradation; no longer to sit in obscure corners and devour the scraps of knowledge which his superiors flung at him. I want to see him crowned with strength and dignity; adorned with the enduring grace of intellectual attainment

Teacher, principal, lecturer, missionary to Africa, and warrior against the most cruel oppression

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