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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: All over America...

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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.

Source: Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women, Boston, 29-31 Jul 1895.
-- 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.

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