M. E. Thompson Coppin

Melissa Evelyn Thompson Coppin ( – September 27, 1940) was an American physician. Coppin was the tenth African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. She was also known for the creation of the children's welfare group, the Women's Christian Alliance (WCA).

Biography Melissa Evelyn Thompson was born around 1878. When she graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now the Drexel University College of Medicine) in 1900, and she became the tenth African American woman in the United States to earn a medical degree.

In August 1914, Coppin married African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Levi J. Coppin. Her husband's wedding present to her was a new car, and which the couple used to drive to their honeymoon at Cape May. Levi died in 1924.