Fannie M. Jackson (later Coppin), a trailblazing educator and missionary, was born. In 1865, she became the first African American woman to graduate from college in the United States, earning her degree from Oberlin College. She later became a principal at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and dedicated her life to education and racial uplift.
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