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Florida Ruffin Ridley, American civil rights activist, teacher, editor, and writer (died 1943)

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Florida Ruffin Ridley

African-American journalist and activist (1861–1943)

Florida Ruffin Ridley was an African-American civil rights activist, suffragist, teacher, writer, and editor from Boston, Massachusetts. She was one of the first black public schoolteachers in Boston, and edited The Woman's Era, the country's first newspaper published by and for…
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January 29

Day of the year

January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 336 days remain until the end of the year.
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