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Lucy Stone | |
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 Daguerreotype of Lucy Stone, c. 1840–1860 | |
| Born | August 13, 1818 West Brookfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | October 18, 1893 (aged 75) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College (BA) |
| Known for | Abolitionist suffragist women's rights activist |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Alice Stone Blackwell |
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women.[1] In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery. Stone was known for using her birth name, after marriage, contrary to the custom of women taking their husband's surname.[2]
Stone's organizational activities for the cause of women's rights yielded tangible gains in the difficult political environment of the 19th century. Stone helped initiate the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts,[3] and she supported and sustained it, annually, along with a number of other local, regional, and state activist conventions. Stone spoke in front of a number of legislative bodies, to promote laws giving more rights to women. She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the local and state levels.
Stone wrote, extensively, about a wide range of women's rights, publishing and distributing speeches by herself and others, and convention proceedings. In the long-running and influential[4] Woman's Journal, a weekly periodical that she founded and promoted, Stone aired both her own and differing views about women's rights. Called "the orator",[5] the "morning star,"[6] and the "heart and soul"[7] of the women's rights movement, Stone influenced Susan B. Anthony to take up the cause of women's suffrage.[8] Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote that "Lucy Stone was the first person by whom the heart of the American public was deeply stirred on the woman question."[9] Together, Anthony, Stanton, and Stone have been called the 19th-century "triumvirate" of women's suffrage and feminism.[10][11]
- ^ Electronic Oberlin Group. Oberlin: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow... Lucy Stone (1818–1893). Retrieved on May 9, 2009.
- ^ Waxman, Olivia B. (March 7, 2019). "V". Time. New York, NY.
- ^ O'Dea Schenken, Suzanne (1999). From Suffrage to the Senate. California: ABC-CLIO, Inc. pp. 645. ISBN 0-87436-960-6.
- ^ Dorchester Atheneum. Lucy Stone, 1818–1893 Archived October 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. "Perhaps Lucy Stone's greatest contribution was in founding and largely financing the weekly newspaper of the American Woman Suffrage Association, the Woman's Journal." Retrieved on May 9, 2009.
- ^ Spender, 1982, p. 348.
- ^ Hays, 1961, p. 81.
- ^ Million, 2003, p. 161.
- ^ Hays, p. 88; Million, pp. 132, 296n.9
- ^ Blackwell, 1930, p. 94.
- ^ Library of Congress. American Memory. American Women, Manuscript Division. Women's Suffrage: The Early Leaders. Retrieved on May 13, 2009.
- ^ Riegel, Robert Edgar. American Women., Associated University Presses, 1970, p. 220. ISBN 0-8386-7615-4