CHAPTER 3
Corporate Rights, Money, and Activism
ANN NIXON WAS BORN ON JANUARY 9, 1902, in Bedford County, Tennessee, a small town outside Nashville.1 She was the daughter of tenant farmers in the South and the granddaughter of grandparents who recalled Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Her childhood as a Black girl in the South was stained and shackled by the inhumane racism that endured in the generations after the Civil War.
Despite the limitations of segregated life, Ann grew up with a sunny outlook and found love with A. B. Cooper, a dentist. They married, moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and started a family that grew with the arrivals of four children. In Atlanta, she lived a socially and politically active life. She helped start the first ...
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