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Their children were Hubert, who became an attorney; Florida Ridley, a school principal and co-founder with her mother of the newspaper The Woman's Era; Stanley, an inventor; George, a musician; and Robert, who died in his first year of life.
Jan 19, 2007 · George Lewis Ruffin died on November 19, 1886 in Boston, Massachusetts leaving his widow, three sons and a daughter. In his honor, the George Lewis Ruffin Society was founded at Northeastern University in 1984 to support minorities studying in the Massachusetts criminal justice system.
She met and married George Lewis Ruffin in 1858 at the age of 16 and together they raised 4 children. During the Civil War Josephine helped to recruit African American soldiers for the 54th...
She was sixteen when she and Ruffin married, and the couple would have five children, but Josephine Ruffin was just as active as her husband in the fight for justice and equality. During the Civil War, the couple helped recruit soldiers for the Union army.
Originally from Virginia, George Ruffin was the eldest son of free Black parents. His family moved to Boston in response to a law that prohibited free Blacks in Virginia from learning to read or write.
Josephine married George Lewis Ruffin when she was 15 years old. In the past, it was common for daughters of wealthy families to marry this young. The Ruffins were another wealthy Black family in Boston. Immediately after getting married in 1857, Josephine and George moved to England.
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During the tenure of The Woman’s Era, 1894 to 1897, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and her eloquent daughter, Florida Ruffin Ridley, intended for news and editorial content to build a bridge between African-American “women’s clubs.”
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