Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was born in 1842 into one of Boston’s most prominent black families. At the young age of 15, she became the wife of George Lewis Ruffin, who was the first African-American graduate of Harvard Law School. Ruffin worked with white and black leaders, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and […]

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