Fannie Jackson Coppin Club

The club played an important role in community outreach to voters before and after the passage of Proposition 4 in 1911 which granted women in California the right to vote.

The Fannie Jackson Coppin Club was formed in Oakland in June 1899 by women of Beth Eden Baptist Church.

[12] Club members created a wide variety of organizations aimed to improve the lives of African Americans in the east bay.

Hettie B. Tilghman, Willa Henry, Melba Stafford and Delilah Beasley were very community oriented and in 1920 they created the Linden Center Young Women's Christian Association.

Despite the creation of independent organizations that grew out of the Fannie Jackson Coppin club, it remained intact and lasted well into the 1960s.