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Lucy Stone, Women's Rights Activist from Massachusetts

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Daguerreotype of Lucy Stone, American suffragist between 1840 and 1860

Cross-Links

The Women's Suffrage Movement Before the Civil War

Alexis de Tocqueville, Political Participation and Suffrage

PAGE SUMMARY

Lucy Stone was a prominent women’s rights activist and abolitionist born in West Brookfield Massachusetts (1818-1893).

Lucy Stone was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She acquired her degree from Oberlin College, the first college to admit both women and African Americans.

Stone constantly tested the boundaries of gender norms. She publicly spoke about political and social topics, wore a form of pants, and even refused to take her husband’s last name after marriage.

Her efforts and accomplishments had major contributions to the abolitionist movements of the time. Additionally, she had a substantial hand in helping women gain the right to vote. This was all accomplished via her tenacity and activism. (Summary by Kate Maskell, April 2022).

Lucy Stone Biography for National Women's Rights National Park

A biography of written of Lucy Stone by the Boston Women's Heritage Trail

● Lucy stone was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a College Degree

● She was a suffragist and helped women gain the power to vote - and as we know, voting

is our most important civic duty!

● Furthermore, she was involved in anti-slavery movements

● She constantly tested gender norms and refused to take her husband's last name when

getting married. (Notes from Ivory Moulton, March 2020)

Stone was not a part of the Seneca Falls convention. However, she organized her own in Worcester Massachusetts.

Click here for a timeline that details the life and accomplishments of Lucy Stone.

Primary Sources

Lucy Stone's Address to the 7th Women's Rights Convention (November 25, 1856)

Women's Suffrage and the Media. This article contains multiple links to Oberlin University's archives that contain primary sources authored by Lucy Stone.

I Now Pronounce You: Lucy Stone, WGBH Forum

Historical re-enactment of Lucy Stone's speeches using primary source materials

Actress Judith Kalaora portrays the outspoken 19th-century "feminist-abolitionist" in this performance, written by the actress herself

Women's Rights Activist Lucy Stone | I Know Ohio

This video provides a quick introduction into the life and accomplishments of Lucy Stone.
This resource discusses her early life, education, political endeavors and beliefs.

Boston Women's Memorial, Commonwealth Avenue Mall

Sculptures of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone and Phillis Wheatley at a memorial dedicated to them for shaping Boston's history

The memorial differentiates learning through text engraved on the sculpture, through art, and through an interactive experience because one can stand next to the sculptures and feel as if they were next to the real person.