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All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1842
Born: August 31
Died: 1924
Died: March 13
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Suffragette
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Boston
Massachusetts
J. St. P. Ruffin
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