Identifier: negroinamericanh02crom (find matches)
Title: The Negro in American history; men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cromwell, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1846
Subjects: African Americans -- History African Americans Slavery -- United States
Publisher: Washington, The American Negro academy
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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a biographicalsidelight to assume a partisan role Aside from his successfuladvocacy of the claims of industrial education, the establish-ment of the Business Mens League, which has maintained anuninterrupted existence since 1900, is a work of constructivestatesmanship to speak for itself. In 1898, on the same platform vdth President McKinley, herecounted the military service of the Negro in all the wars ofthe Republic and then made a most impassioned appeal to thecountry for justice. At Wilberforce University at the celebration of its fiftieth an-niversary in the presence of the Bishops, he made an argu-ment for the union of the different branches of Methodism thatmust commend itself to all thinkers as a piece of foresightedstatesmanship which all should recognize. Whatever his mis-takes, these two addresses loom out and emphasize the claimwe make for him as the great organizer, promoter, and execu-tive of the last decade of the nineteenth and the first decade ofthe twentieth century.
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I xxxn FANNY MURIEL JACKSON COPPIN One of the first colored women to graduate from a recognizedcollege in the United States was Fanny M. Jackson Coppin, thewife of Bishop Levi J. Coppin, 30th bishop of the AfricanMethodist Episcopal Church. But this is her smallest claim todistinction, for hers is excellence as educator, public speaker,and for her notable achievements as a public-spirited citizen. She was born a slave in the city of Washington, District ofColumbia, late in the fourth decade of the nineteenth century.Her maternal grandfather was a Mr. Henry Orr, a free manof color; but his wife was a slave, and according to the lawsof the times, their six children took the legal condition ofthe mother. A few years after the passage of the Fugitive SlaveLaw of 1850, Mrs. Sarah Clark, her aunt, discovering thatFanny was a child of promise, saved up one hundred andseventy-five dollars and secured the girls freedom, according tothe forms of law, by paying this sum of money to the District

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