American abolitionist, suffragist, and activist (1819–1909)
Mary Jane Richardson Jones
Jones c. 1865
Born
Mary Jane Richardson
c. 1819
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Died
December 26, 1909(1909-12-26) (aged 89–90)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
Activist
Movement
Abolitionism
woman's club movement
Spouse
John Jones
(m. 1841; died 1879)
Children
1
Mary Jane Richardson Jones (c. 1819 – December 26, 1909) was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, and suffragist. Born in Tennessee to free African-American parents, Jones and her family moved to Illinois. With her husband, John, she was a leading African-American figure in the early history of Chicago. The Jones household was a stop on the Underground Railroad and a center of abolitionist activity in the pre-Civil War era, helping hundreds of fugitive slaves flee slavery.
After her husband's death in 1879, Jones continued to support African-American civil rights and advancement in Chicago, and became a suffragist. Jones was active in the women's club movement and mentored a new generation of younger black leaders, such as Fannie Barrier Williams and Ida B. Wells. Historian Wanda A. Hendricks has described her as a wealthy "aristocratic matriarch, presiding over the [city's] black elite for two decades."[1]
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