 In addition to teaching,Coon worked as superintendent of Salisbury, North Carolina schools; North Carolina African American normal schools; and Wilson County, North Carolina schools.Coon was also involved in social welfare, serving as president of the Wilson Welfare League and secretary of the North Carolina Child Labor Committee.Coon was directly involved in the founding and financing of the Negro Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Wilson, N.C. Coon's interests in history were focused on the history of education in North Carolina, and he published numerous articles on the subject.