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Lucy Stone. Daguerreotype ca. 1840-1860
Lucy Stone. Daguerreotype ca. 1840-1860

Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818October 19, 1893) was a prominent American suffragist. She was the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909) (the brother of Elizabeth Blackwell) and the mother of Alice Stone Blackwell, another prominent suffragette, journalist and human rights defender. Stone was best known for being the first recorded American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage and being the first woman in Massachusetts to receive a college degree. slight crop of daguerreotype of Lucy Stone from , circa 1840 - 1860 this page states The Library of Congress is not aware of any restrictions on these photographs. ... slight crop of daguerreotype of Lucy Stone from , circa 1840 - 1860 this page states The Library of Congress is not aware of any restrictions on these photographs. ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 The title of suffragette was given to members of the womens suffrage movement in the United Kingdom and United States, particularly in the years prior to World War I. The name was the Womens Social and Political Union (founded in 1903). ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... Henry Browne Blackwell (1825 - 1909). ... Year 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Blackwell was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp. ... Alice Stone Blackwell 1857-1950, was an American feminist, journalist and human rights defender. ... Matrimony redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... A degree is any of a wide range of awards made by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study. ...

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Early life and influences

Lucy Stone was born on the 13th of August, 1818, on her family's farm in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She was the eighth of nine children, and as she grew up, she watched as her father rule 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 for her education. She was faster at learning than her brother — but he was to be educated, she was not. (Redirected from 13 August) August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ... Year 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Divine Right is a comic book created by Jim Lee and published by Wildstorm. ...


She was inspired in her reading by the Grimké sisters, abolitionists but also proponents of women's rights. When the Bible was quoted to her, defending the positions of men and women, she declared that when she grew up, she'd learn Greek and Hebrew so she could correct the mistranslation that she was confident lay behind such verses Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were 19th-century American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and womens rights. ...


Secondary education

Her father would not support her education, and so she alternated her own education with teaching, to earn enough to continue. She attended several institutions, including Mount Holyoke College (then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in 1839. By age 25 (1843), she had saved enough to fund her first year at Oberlin College in Ohio, the country's first college to admit both women and African-Americans. Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... Oberlin College is a small liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, in the United States. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Predominantly Christianity and Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ...


After four years of study at Oberlin College, all the while teaching and doing housework to pay for the costs, Lucy Stone graduated in 1847. She was asked to write a commencement speech for her class but refused because someone else would have had to read her speech as women were not allowed, even at Oberlin, to give a public address. See also Academic dress Categories: Education | Academia ...


Abolitionist and suffragette

Shortly after Stone returned to Massachusetts, the first woman in that state to receive a college degree, she gave her first public speech: on women's rights. She delivered the speech from the pulpit of her brother's Congregational Church in Gardner, Massachusetts. Stone became a leader of the women's suffrage movement, lecturing extensively on both suffrage and abolition. Stone was hired by the Garrisonian Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society as a lecturer and organizer. William Lloyd Garrison and the society were not fond of her mixing women’s rights with abolitionism in her speeches, so she agreed to speak of abolition on the weekends and women’s rights during the week. The term women’s rights typically refers to freedoms inherently possessed by women and girls of all ages, which may be institutionalized or ignored and/or illegitimately suppressed by law or custom in a particular society. ... Nickname: Location in Worcester County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Worcester County Settled 1764 Incorporated 1785 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Gerald St. ... The term womens suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. ...


During the war, Stone along with other abolitionist-women’s rights supporters formed the Woman’s National Loyal League which fought for full emancipation and enfranchisement of African Americans. Once Reconstruction began, she helped form the American Equal Rights Association. The AERA's main goal was acquire equal voting rights for both genders and all races. After the passage of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment, Stone was pleased that someone was able to gain something out of her hard work, even if she could not complete her whole mission. For other uses, see Reconstruction (disambiguation). ... The American Equal Rights Association (also known as the Equal Rights Association) was an organization formed by womens rights and black rights activists in 1866 in the United States. ...


Stone stuck with her beliefs of equality for African-Americans as well as women when in 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony left the AERA in opposition to the passage of the fifteenth amendment because it excluded women and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. Along with her husband and Julia Ward Howe, Stone founded the American Woman Suffrage Association, which was committed to gaining women suffrage yet not forgetting the rights of African Americans. Eventually by 1890, the two groups resolved their differences and merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902), was an American social activist and leading figure of the early womans movement . ... For other uses, see Susan B. Anthony (disambiguation). ... The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was created in 1890, when two competing American womens suffrage advocacy groups united. ... Julia Ward Howe Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. ... The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was created in 1890, when two competing American womens suffrage advocacy groups united. ... The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), an American womens rights organization, was formed as an amalgamation of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) in May of 1890. ...


In 1870 she founded, in Boston, the Woman's Journal, the publication of the American Woman Suffrage Association, and she continued to edit it for the rest of her life, assisted by her husband and their daughter. That daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), wrote her biography, Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights (ISBN 0-8139-1990-8), which was published in 1930 and again in 1971 (2nd edition). 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Boston redirects here. ... Womans Journal was a womens rights periodical published from 1870-1931. ... Alice Stone Blackwell 1857-1950, was an American feminist, journalist and human rights defender. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ...


Later life

Lucy Stone and her husband moved to Pope's Hill in Dorchester, MA around 1870, relocating from New Jersey due to their work in organizing the New England Woman Suffrage Association. In several ways, Dorchester was a fitting site for Stone's crusade, as many of the town's women had been active in the Dorchester Female Anti-Slavery Society and as, by 1870, a number of local women were bona fide suffragettes. There she spent the last 23 years of her life. Stone was diagnosed as suffering from a stomach tumor. Having "prepared for death with serenity and an unwavering concern for the women's cause," Lucy Stone passed away on October 18, 1893, at the age of 75.


Legacy

Lucy Stone's refusal to take husband's name, as an assertion of her own rights, was controversial then and is what she is remembered for today. Women who continue to use their birth names after marriage are still occasionally known as "Lucy Stoners" in the U.S. In 1921, the Lucy Stone League was founded in New York City. It was reborn in 1997. To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Lucy Stone League is a women’s rights organization founded in 1921. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ...


On her passing in 1893, Lucy Stone was interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The Forest Hills Cemetery (1848) in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (formerly in the city of Roxbury, now in the city of Boston) is an early suburban garden cemetery inspired by the Mount Auburn Cemetery. ... Jamaica Plain, commonly known as JP, is a historic neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. ...


In 1968, the U.S. Postal Service honored Lucy Stone with a 50 cent postage stamp. A USPS Truck at Night A U.S. Post Office sign The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the United States government organization responsible for providing postal service in the United States and is generally referred to as the post office. ...


In 2000, Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls included a song entitled "LucyStoners" on her first solo recording, Stag. Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. ...


An administration building in Livingston College at Rutgers University in New Jersey is named for Lucy Stone. “Rutgers” redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...


The birthplace of Lucy Stone can be seen on the top of Coy Hill in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. West Brookfield is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. ...


Lucy Stone Park is located in Warren, Massachusetts, along the Quaboag River. Warren is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. ... The Quaboag River is a Massachusetts river that heads at Quaboag Pond south of East Brookfield, Massachusetts at an elevation of 594 feet MSL. It continues to the town of Three Rivers, Massachusetts, at an elevation of 290 feet MSL. // This river receives its name from Quaboag Pond, an Indian...


See also

First-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... The History of Feminism is the history of Feminist movements. ...

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References

  • Baker, Jean H. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists. Hill and Wang, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-8090-9528-9.
  • Wheeler, Leslie. Lucy Stone: Radical beginnings (1818-1893) in Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, pp. 124-136 ISBN 0-394-53438-7
  • Stevens, Peter F. (May 26, 2005). "A Voice From On High". Dorchester Reporter. <http://www.dotnews.com/lucystone.html>.
  • Hinks, Peter P, John R. McKivigan, and R. Owen Williams. Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition: Greenwood Milestones in African American History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007.

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