African-American journalist and activist (1861-1943)
Florida Ruffin Ridley
Born
Florida Yates Ruffin
(1861-01-29)January 29, 1861
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died
February 25, 1943(1943-02-25) (aged 82)
Toledo, Ohio, United States
Occupation(s)
Teacher, writer
Known for
Civil rights activism
Spouse
Ulysses A. Ridley
(m. 1888; died 1933)
Children
2
Parent(s)
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin George Lewis Ruffin
Florida Ruffin Ridley (born Florida Yates Ruffin; January 29, 1861 – February 25, 1943)[1] was an African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston, Massachusetts. She was one of the first black public schoolteachers in Boston, and edited The Woman's Era, the country's first newspaper published by and for African-American women.
^Emerson, Dorothy May; Edwards, June; Knox, Helene (2000). Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936. Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. ISBN 9781558963801.
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