The League of Women for Community Service, one of Boston's oldest African American women’s organizations, began as a World War I effort in 1918 to provide comfort, supplies, and cheer to Black...
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924), editor of The Woman’s Era, lived here for two decades. Her daughter, Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861-1943), was a pioneering teacher and activist.
