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Oct 26, 1999 · The schism in the movement was finally healed in 1890, in large part through the initiative of Stone’s daughter, Alice Blackwell. Lucy Stone was thereafter chairman of the executive board of the merged National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Her refusal to pay property taxes was punished by the impoundment and sale of the Stones’ household goods. At the end of the Civil War, Stone went to Kansas to work on the referendum for suffrage there.
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.
Apr 2, 2014 · In 1868 she co-founded and became president of the State Woman's Suffrage Association of New Jersey, which would later be succeeded by the League of Women Voters of New Jersey in 1920.
The woman whose speech in 1850 converted Susan B. Anthony to the suffrage cause later disagreed with Anthony over strategy and tactics, splitting the suffrage movement into two major branches after the Civil War. Fast Facts: Lucy Stone.
Questioned when she dared to speak for the cause of the rights afforded woman at an anti-slavery meeting, Stone replied, "I was a woman before I was an abolitionist." [3] By mid-1851 Stone ended her contract with the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society to dedicate herself completely to the women's suffrage movement. [4]
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The schism in the movement was finally healed in 1890, in large part through the initiative of Stone’s daughter, Alice Blackwell. Lucy Stone was thereafter chairman of the executive board of the merged National American Woman Suffrage Association.
