Cancelled check endorsed by Josephine Ruffin

Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre, 1842-1924

About this Item

Check for $50.16 drawn on Lynn Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Lynn, Massachusetts by Miss Helen Giddings and payable to Jesephine Ruffin. Endorsed clearly on back by "Josephine Ruffin Boston. Ruffin, an African American, was an abolitionist, civil rights activist and suffragist. She founded the New Era Club in 1894 and also began in that same year publishing Woman's Era, the first newpaper published by an African American woman which was published in Boston between 1894 and 1897. We don't know anything about Miss Helen Giddings or exaxtly why Giddings wrote this check to Ruffin.

Seller Inventory # 95803

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cancelled check endorsed by Josephine Ruffin
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • African American Authors