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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 ...
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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Parent (s) John St. Pierre. Elizabeth Matilda Menhenick. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (née St. Pierre; August 31, 1842 – March 13, 1924 [1]) was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, abolitionist, and editor of the Woman's Era, the first national newspaper published by and for African American women.
(1842–1924),African American women's rights activist and editor. As one of the most influential movers of the African American women's club movement that worked for racial uplift, the feminist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was one of the first Americans publicly to address black women's unique role at the intersection of race and gender.
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre Topics Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre, 1842-1924 Genres Portraits Photographs Notes Content: Reproduction bears caption with typo of name; image is folded across the middle. Physical Description Extent: 12 x 11 cm. Description Quarter length portrait of civil rights leader and women's rights ...
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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 ...
