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Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Women's Rights

By Alice Stone Blackwell

Book information

Publisher
Madison & Adams Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9788026884903
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
608 kB (622335 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-27 20:51:30
BIO022000Biography & AutobiographyNonfictionSOC010000Sociology

Description

Lucy Stone was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was known for using her birth name after marriage, the custom at the time being for women to take their husband's surname. Stone 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 state and local levels.

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