Harriet Purvis Jr.
American abolitionist, suffragist and member of the temperance movement
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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 name | Hattie Purvis Jr. |
| Education | Friends Eagleswood School, Raritan Bay Union |
| Occupations | activist, abolitionist, suffragist |
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Biography
She 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]