Coralie Franklin Cook (March 1861 – August 25, 1942) was an outspoken and leader in the African American community, well known in both West Virginia and Washington, D.C. in issues of women's suffrage and education. Cook 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. 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."
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March 1861 Lexington, Virginia
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25 August 1942 (aged 81)
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