107-year-old: 'Nothing but the Greatest!' Day

Ann Nixon Cooper is 107 and lives in Atlanta. As she watched the inauguration yesterday, she said,"This moment in history marks one of the greatest days of her event-filled life." I can't even begin to imagine. Her grandson was with her too and said "he was proud to share this moment with his grandmother. 'She's gone from oil lamps ... to cell phones, from horse and buggies to spaceships. She's seen it all.'"

At the end of the speech, Jeff Cooper [another grandson] hugged her and kissed her cheek. "Grandma, how does it feel to have a black president?"

"I'm so happy," she said.

She said she remembers the days when she couldn't vote and was subjected to racial slurs and injustices. "There was a time when they thought they could just kick us around," she said. "Now, it has changed."

In Obama's victory speech in November, he praised Cooper's fight. "She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin. (from CNN)"

Amazing. This woman has lived a long and fruitful life - she even knew Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was a boy! She also co-founded a Girls Club for African-American youth and taught community residents to read in a tutoring program at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached. Read about her here.

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