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The George Lewis Ruffin Society, named after the first African American in Massachusetts to earn a law degree and serve as a judge, was started in 1984 in response to dwindling numbers of minority officers within the Boston Police Department.
Wilkins started his talk with George Lewis Ruffin LL.B. 1869, the first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, four years after the Civil War, and the first Black person to receive a formal legal education in the United States.
Sep 30, 2011 · George Lewis Ruffin 1869 and Archibald H. Grimke 1874, the first two blacks to graduate from HLS, entered a school that was still a “stronghold of anti-black feeling,” Coquillette said. Ruffin served as a Massachusetts court judge until his death 1886, and Grimke, an escaped slave from South Carolina, became national vice president of the NAACP.
To a large degree, The Woman’s Era was intended for middle-to-upper class black women. Ruffin herself called it a “high class paper” aimed at addressing the strictures on “educated, refined black women.”[5] This may appear as “respectability politics,” in contemporary terms, yet Ruffin understood that even wealthy, culturally sophisticated African-Americans would surely face ...
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