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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Prominent Woman of Boston, Leader of the Club Movement Among Colored Women, 1900. New York Public Library. Josephine St. Pierre was born on August 31, 1842 into a wealthy Boston family. Her mother was a white woman from England and her father was a Black man born on the Caribbean ...
May 29, 2020 · So, with a lineage and resume like this, why don’t we know about Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin? Josephine was an ardent suffragist, and I was happy to learn about her when I researched my book, Women Win the Vote! 19 for the 19th Amendment. Like many suffragists, Josephine came first to the abolition cause.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was born in Boston on August 31, 1842 to a white mother from England and a Black father from Martinique. Her father, a founder of the Boston Zion Church, owned a clothing business that made him a wealthy and well-known member of the community. Ruffin attended school in nearby Salem until the Boston schools integrated ...
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 41572164. Source citation. Journalist, Civil Rights Leader, Suffragist. The daughter of John St. Pierre, a Frenchman from the island of Martinique and Elizabeth Matilda Menhenick from Cornwall, England. She was sent to New York City to a private school because her parents objected the segragated schools in Boston.
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre (1842–1924)African-American civic leader and reformer. Born Josephine St. Pierre in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 31, 1842; died in Boston on March 13, 1924; daughter of John St. Pierre (a clothing dealer) and Elizabeth (Menhenick) St. Pierre; educated at the Bowdoin School; married George Lewis Ruffin (a lawyer, legislator and judge), in 1858 (died 1886 ...
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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin(1842-1924) journalist, civil rights leader. Ruffin was born August 31, 1842 into one of Boston's leading black families. In 1858, at the age of 15, she became the wife ...