Ella Day Rush Murray (1876-1943). American civil rights activist, suffragist, advocate of black enfranchisement. She sat on the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was a charter member of the National Woman's Party and a member of the Consumers' League.
She was a scion of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and of Richard Stockton, another signer of the Declaration.
In 1905 she married the engineer William Spencer Murray, Sr. and they had three sons, Richard Murray, John Murray, and William Spencer Murray, Jr.
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