Ann Nixon Cooper, who then president-elect Barack Obama noted last year had lived long enough to know both "the heartache" of being denied the right to vote and "the hope" of seeing him elected ...

ATLANTA – Ann Nixon Cooper, the Atlanta centenarian lauded by President Barack Obama in his election night speech last year, has died. She was 107. Obama in his 2008 speech called Cooper an ...

When President-elect Obama singled out Ann Nixon Cooper's life as the lens through which to view his rise to office, he could not have appreciated just how special a person she was. The CNN story ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared on CNN.com on October 20. Barack Obama mentioned Ann Nixon Cooper on Tuesday in his presidential victory speech. ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)-- Ann Nixon ...

When I went down to Atlanta last summer to visit with Ann Nixon Cooper in preparation for writing her memoir, she wanted me to be very clear about one thing: She thought it was lovely that ...

Ann Nixon Cooper, the 107-year-old Atlanta woman whose name President Obama invoked when he gave his historic election speech last year, died Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. Then President-elect ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Ann Nixon Cooper sits back in her dining room chair, her eyes closed tight and her lips clenched, when asked if she will attend Barack Obama's inauguration in January.

ATLANTA -- Ann Nixon Cooper was remembered Monday as a charismatic woman who, after toiling through the civil rights era, lived to see herself hailed in an election night speech by the nation's ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Ann Nixon Cooper was remembered as a charismatic woman who, after toiling through the civil rights era, lived to see herself hailed in an election night speech... ATLANTA (AP ...