Harriet Purvis Jr. also known as Hattie Purvis (c. 1839 – 1904) was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist and a member of the temperance movement.[1] She was part of the second generation of American suffragists.[2] Purvis worked closely with Susan B. Anthony.[1]
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| Born | c. 1839 U.S. |
| Died | 1904 (aged 64–65) Watertown, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Other names | Hattie Purvis Jr. |
| Education | Friends Eagleswood School, Raritan Bay Union |
| Occupation(s) | activist, abolitionist, suffragist |
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Biography
editShe was born in about 1839 to activists Harriet Forten Purvis and Robert Purvis.[1] She was the granddaughter of James Forten.[3] She grew up in a household that was center of the Pennsylvania's Underground Railroad.[1] She attended school at Friends Eagleswood School and Theodore Dwight Weld's Raritan Bay Union school in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.[1]
She was a member of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and worked to raise funds.[1] She attended the 1866 National Woman's Rights Convention and became a member of the American Equal Rights Association (AERA).[1] She served as secretary for AERA from 1866 until 1869.[1][4] She was on the executive committee of the Pennsylvania Woman's Suffrage Association.[1] She was a delegate and the first African-American president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.[1]
She died on April 4, 1904, in Watertown, Massachusetts.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Key Figures, Shining a Light on Black Women's Activism, Harriet Purvis, Jr". Black Women's Suffrage. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ "The suffragettes of 1880-1890: simultaneously pursuing racial justice alongside the landmark right to vote". Power In Place. 12 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ Julie Winch. "Hariet Davy Forten Purvis". The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia. Penn State Press. pp. 171–172. ISBN 0-271-04302-4.
- ^ Hine, Darlene Clark; Brown, Elsa Barkley; Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn (1993). Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Carlson Pub. p. 444. ISBN 978-0-926019-61-4.
- ^ "Obituary: Purvis". Newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 7 April 1904. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-02-01.