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Born: August 31, 1842, Boston, MADied: March 13, 1924 (age 81 years), Boston, MAChildren: Florida Ruffin RidleySpouse: George Lewis Ruffin (m. 1858–1886)Pare...
Did she ever tire??Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was an outstanding example of building a community to help create a more healthy, just world.#blackhistorymont...
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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 ...
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.
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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. 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 of George ...
