Florida Ruffin Ridley
Florida Ruffin Ridley was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States on January 29th, 1861 and is the American Civil Rights Activist. At the age of 82, Florida Ruffin Ridley biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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As a journalist and essayist, Ridley wrote mainly about black history and race relations in New England. She contributed to the Journal of Negro History, The Boston Globe, and other periodicals, and also published a number of short stories. She was a member of the Saturday Evening Quill Club, a literary group organized by Boston Post editor and columnist Eugene Gordon in 1925. Fellow members included Pauline Hopkins and Dorothy West. The Saturday Evening Quill, the group's annual journal, published the work of African-American women writers and artists, including Ridley, Helene Johnson, and Lois Mailou Jones.
Ridley also edited The Woman's Era, the country's first newspaper published by and for African-American women.
She died at her daughter's home in Toledo, Ohio, on February 25, 1943. Her home on Charles Street is a stop on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.