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Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, the tenth of thirteen children to sharecroppers George, who was part Cherokee, and Susan Coleman.
Coleman began attending school at age six and had to walk four miles each day to her segregated, one-room school, where she loved to read and established herself as an outstanding math student.
He returned to Oklahoma, or Indian Territory as it was then called, to find better opportunities, but Susan and the children did not go with him.
When she turned eighteen, Coleman took her savings and enrolled in the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University ( now called Langston University ) in Langston, Oklahoma.
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