Fannie Franklin Wall

Fannie Franklin Wall (c. 1860–1944) was an American clubwoman, civic leader, community activist, and children's home founder.

Early life Fannie Franklin was born in about 1860 in Gallatin, Tennessee. to California after Archy Wall was transferred from New Mexico to San Francisco during the Spanish–American War, Its motto was 'Lifting As We Climb', and it emphasised activism and service, pursuing community improvement, social justice, and civil rights.

Wall became well known as a community activist, noted for, on multiple occasions refusing to leave the office of Oakland mayor John L. Davies until her concerns were addressed. They sought specifically to support black working mothers, care for orphaned black children,

Theirs was the first facility in Northern California to provide housing, boarding, and day care for black orphans, and was for many decades the only Bay Area day care provider open to African American children. The Oakland Tribune, reporting on the celebration of his family back home, described Wall, at 75, as 'still active in the affairs of the Fannie Wall Home for Children, which she founded.'

Fannie Franklin Wall died aged 84 on 14 April 1944, in her home at 6114 Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland, which she left to her daughters. She was buried alongside her husband in the San Francisco National Cemetery.