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Leading suffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone famously defied gender norms when she wrote marriage vows to reflect her egalitarian beliefs and refused to take her husband’s last name. Read her story on womenshistory.org.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
Blackwell’s famous relatives included brother Henry, a...
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s...
- Susan B. Anthony
Activists like Frederick Douglass and Lucy Stone still...
- Elizabeth Blackwell
Lucy Stone's portrait as it appeared in History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II, in 1881 In 1877, Stone was asked by Rachel Foster Avery to come assist Colorado activists in the organization of a popular referendum campaign, with the aim of gaining suffrage for Coloradan women.
Oct 26, 1999 · Lucy Stone (born Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 18, 1893, Dorchester [part of Boston], Mass.) was an American pioneer in the women’s rights movement. Stone began to chafe at the restrictions placed on the female sex while she was still a girl.
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The context for the letter is that Stone and Blackwell opposed suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton was not an abolitionist and opposed the 15th Amendment giving black people voting rights.
Apr 2, 2014 · After the Civil War, Stone found herself at odds with fellow suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, both former allies who deeply opposed Stone's support for the 15th...
Jun 18, 2019 · Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Blackwell led those who sought to keep the causes of Black people and women's suffrage together, and in 1869 they and others founded the American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Mar 7, 2019 · Lucy Stone, though often written out of the history of the American women's suffrage movement, helped revolutionized ideas about marriage.
