Born: 23 May 1859, United States
Died: 13 August 1930
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904 in an office at 5 Park Square. Her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.” She included a series of articles, Famous Women of the Negro Race, and reported the news of the rejection of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin’s New Era Club for membership in the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1902.