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About Coralie Franklin Cook
Coralie Franklin Cook was an African-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. 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."
Everything about Coralie Franklin Cook →- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 1861
- Died
- August 25, 1942