 Fannie J. Coppin, born a slave in 1837 in Washington, D.C., died January 21, 1913 in Philadelphia, a graduate of Oberlin College, educator and missionary, whose innovations as first Black woman head principal of the Institute for Color Youth in Philadelphia and in the country period. In 1889, after a 10-year campaign, she realized her hope to introduce an industrial training department that offered instruction in 10 trades prior to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee University. She sailed for Cape Town, South Africa. She and her husband founded the Bethel Institute in Cape Town and worked there for women tirelessly for 10 years. She returned to Philadelphia, where she spent the remaining of her life. In 1926, the high school and training facility in Baltimore was renamed Fannie Coppin Normal School now Coppin State College.