Coralie Franklin Cook

Coralie Franklin Cook
Coralie Franklin Cook, in a 1917 issue of The Crisis.
Born1861
Lexington, Virginia
Died1942
Occupation(s)Women's rights activist, educator and public speaker.

Coralie Franklin Cook (March 1861 – August 25, 1942) was an American educator, public speaker, and government official. She is also the first known descendant among those enslaved at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate to graduate from college.[citation needed] Cook, along with Mary Church Terrell, Anna J. Cooper, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nannie Helen Burroughs, "exemplified the third generation of African American woman suffragists who related to both the Black and the white worlds."[1]

  1. ^ Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn (1998). African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Indiana University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780253211767. Coralie Franklin Cook.