a musician; and Robert, who died before his first birthday. She died of nephritis at her home on St. Botolph Street, Boston, in 1924, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. Legacy In 1995, Ruffin was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 1999 a series of six tall marble panels with a bronze bust in each was added to the Massachusetts State House; the busts are of Ruffin, Florence Luscomb, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Dorothea Dix, Sarah Parker Remond, and Lucy Stone. Two quotations from each of those women (including Ruffin) are etched on their own marble panel, and the wall behind all the panels has wallpaper made of six government documents repeated over and over, with each document being related to a cause of one or more of the women. Her home on Charles Street is a site on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. References Further reading External links Josephine Ruffin, activist, philanthropist and newspaper publisher at the African American Registry African American Women in History Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: A pioneer in the black women's club movement - Part 1 Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: A pioneer in the black women's club movement - Part 2 1842 births 1924 deaths African-American abolitionists African-American journalists American women journalists African-American publishers (people) American publishers (people) Activists for African-American civil rights African Americans in the American Civil War American people of Cornish descent American women's rights activists Writers from Boston Women in the American Civil War 19th century in Boston Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery American suffragists African-American women journalists African-American history in Boston American people of Martiniquais descent African-American suffragists People from the West End, Boston Women civil rights activists 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women 19th-century African-American writers 19th-century African-American women writers 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American journalists