“Constance Ridley Heslip (1892–1972): Educator, Civic Leader, and Archivist of African American Legacy”

Constance Josephine Ridley Heslip was born on April 5, 1892, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Florida Yates Ruffin Ridley and Ulysses Archibald Ridley; her grandparents were Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin a…