Charles Cooper is a certified Physician Assistant with more than 25 years of clinical experience in internal and family medicine. A graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California. Charles “Coop” practices in Brownwood, Texas, where he provides comprehensive adult primary care grounded in evidence-based medicine, thoughtful clinical judgment, and long-term continuity of care. His philosophy is simple: all patients are family and friends.

Charles is married to Adelie Cooper, RN, Oncology Manager at Walker Cancer Center. He is the father of Dr. Abraham F.J. Cooper, United States Air Force, a graduate of Howard Payne University. His younger son, Victoriano F.J. Cooper, is currently a student at Howard Payne University and is expected to graduate in 2026. Victoriano plans to continue his medical education at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine while also pursuing service in the United States Air Force.

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This year marks the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month and Revitalizing Our Community (ROC) will be spotlighting amazing African Americans, who have made contributions to the community of Brownwood and Brown County.  Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) announced the second week of February to be “Negro History Week”. This week was chosen because it coincided with the birthday of Abraham Lincoln on February 12 and that of Frederick Douglass on February 14, both of which Black communities had celebrated since the late 19th century

Black educators and Black United Students at Kent State University first proposed Black History Month in February 1969. The first celebration of Black History Month took place at Kent State a year later, from January 2 to February 28, 1970.

Six years later, Black History Month was being celebrated all across the country in educational institutions, when President Gerald Ford recognized Black History Month in 1976, during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial. He urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”