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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.
- Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone, (born Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, Mass.,...
- Lucy Stone
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.
- Early Life
- Education
- The American Anti-Slavery Society
- Radical Leadership
- Marriage and Motherhood
- Split in The Suffrage Movement
- The Women's Journal
- Last Years
- Death
- Legacy
Lucy Stone was born on August 13, 1818, on her family's Massachusetts farm in West Brookfield. She was the eighth of nine children, and as she grew up, she watched as her father ruled the household, and his wife, by "divine right." Disturbed when her mother had to beg her father for money, she was also unhappy with the lack of support in her family...
Her father would not support her education, so she alternated her own education with teaching to earn enough to continue. She attended several institutions, including Mount Holyoke Female Seminaryin 1839. By age 25 four years later, she had saved enough to fund her first year at Oberlin College in Ohio, the country's first college to admit both Whi...
A year after she graduated, Lucy Stone was hired as an organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In this paid position, she traveled and gave speeches on North American 19th-century abolitionism and women's rights. William Lloyd Garrison, whose ideas were dominant in the Anti-Slavery Society, said of her during her first year of working with...
Stone's radicalism on both North American 19th-century abolitionism and women's rights brought large crowds. The talks also drew hostility: according to historian Leslie Wheeler, "people tore down the posters advertising her talks, burned pepper in the auditoriums where she spoke, and pelted her with prayer books and other missiles." Having been co...
Stone had thought of herself as a "free soul" who would not marry; then she met Cincinnati businessman Henry Blackwell in 1853 on one of her speaking tours. Henry was seven years younger than Lucy and courted her for two years. Henry was anti-enslavement and pro-women's rights. His eldest sister Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), became the first wom...
Inactive in the suffrage movement during the Civil War, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell became active again when the war ended and the Fourteenth Amendmentwas proposed, giving the vote to Black men. For the first time, the Constitution would, with this Amendment, mention "male citizens" explicitly. Most woman suffrage activists were outraged. Many s...
The next year, Lucy raised enough funds to start a suffrage weekly newspaper, The Woman's Journal. For the first two years, it was edited by Mary Livermore, and then Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell became the editors. Lucy Stone found working on a newspaper far more compatible with family life than the lecture circuit. Alice Stone Blackwell attended...
Lucy Stone's radical move to keep her own name continued to inspire and enrage. In 1879, Massachusetts gave women a limited right to vote for the school committee. In Boston, however, the registrars refused to let Lucy Stone vote unless she used her husband's name. She continued to find that, on legal documents and when registering with her husband...
Stone's voice had already faded and she rarely spoke to large groups later in her life. But in 1893, she gave lectures at the World's Columbian Exposition. A few months later, she died in Boston of cancer and was cremated. Her last words to her daughter were "Make the world better."
Lucy Stone is less well known today than Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, or Julia Ward Howe, whose "Battle Hymn of the Republic" helped immortalize her name. Stone's daughter Alice Stone Blackwell published her mother's biography, "Lucy Stone, Pioneer of Woman's Rights," in 1930, helping to keep her name and contributions known. But Lucy ...
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Lucy Stone was a woman set against the institution of marriage, she was not about to let any man become her master. However, one man, Henry Browne Blackwell, a fellow abolitionist, put that resolution to the test.
Lucy Stone, (born Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 18, 1893, Dorchester [part of Boston], Mass.), 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.
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was at odds with patriarchy from the start. As a child with an eye for the practical, she vowed to learn Hebrew and Greek so she could determine if the Bible passages which seemed to grant men power over women had been properly translated.
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Lucy Stone was a leading US suffragist and abolitionist who dedicated her life to battling inequality on all fronts. Stone began to fight against sexism from a young age, she was determined to go to college, even though this was not at all common at the time.
