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REFORMERS > suffragist > Josephine St Pierre Ruffin
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. . . we need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- Josephine St Pierre Ruffin, ( 1842-1924), US suffragist; She was a major force in the black women's club movement; led the First National Conference of Colored Women, Boston, 1895.