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Craig and in 1927 the new building opened, despite protests from white people that a negro school was being built in a predominantly white neighborhood. Coghill continued to serve as principal of Craig until her retirement in 1941. Over the years, her students had opportunities to demonstrate both their talents and their citizenship to the city.
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Following earlier work to address hunger among orphaned children, in 1909, she became an officer of the
Colored Juvenile Court Auxiliary. In 1919, she was chairman of the New Orleans Colored Teachers’ Association. Later, she was a leader in the Negro School Principals Association. She was active with
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Coghill guided the Bayou Road school through many issues. First, the building was in poor shape and suffered multiple destructive events. In the early 1920s, the school board finally decided to build a brand new building a few blocks away. In 1923, the school’s name was changed to Joseph A.
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school, where she served in that role for five years. In 1908, the New
Orleans School Board, in an effort to further segregate the educational system, replaced the all-white staff of the Bayou Road school (which taught black children) with an all-black staff. Coghill was appointed as the principal,
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Community Center, Colored Vocational Guidance Association, NAACP, YWCA, and the Red Cross. During World War II after her retirement from education, she served as co-chair of the Orleans Parish Negro War Savings Committee. She was also a trustee of the Central Congregational Church.
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Orleans for several years before moving to California, where she lived until her death in Los Angeles in April 1957. The
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In 1960, a primary school was built in the Black suburb of
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lawyer, was a student at the Bayou Road school at the tine, and recalled how it was to suddenly have a staff of black women as his teachers.
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