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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. 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 ...
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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 ...
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.
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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Background Information. Born: August 31, 1842; Died: March 13, 1924. St. Pierre was born the youngest of six children and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.1 Her father was the founder of the Boston Zion Church, and her family was one of Boston’s leading families at the time.2 Despite living in Boston, she attended public school in Salem, as ...
