The Andrew Jackson School in South Philadelphia has been renamed after Fanny Jackson Coppin, a former slave who spent 37 years teaching in the city. The School District of Philadelphia's Board of ...

The school will now be named Fanny Jackson Coppin Elementary, named after a former slave whose legacy will now live on in Philadelphia. "She was a former enslaved individual," Espinosa said.

Suddenly the sign above her school door felt personal. Andrew Jackson owned nine people when he bought his Nashville plantation, the Hermitage; within 25 years, his slaves numbered more than 100.