“Let your women keep silence.”
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Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of 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 campaigned against slavery. Stone was known for using her birth name, after marriage, contrary to the custom of women taking their husband's su…
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culture · American abolitionist and suffragist (1818–1893) · journalist · women's rights activist · editor · abolitionist · suffragist · writer · feminist · also Lucy Stone, Lucy Stone Blackwell, Stone
Born 13 August 1818 · Died 19 October 1893 · Q452281
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2026· 7 entries
“I come before this committee with the sense which I always feel, that we are handicapped, as women, in what we try to do for ourselves by the single fact that we have no vote. This cheapens us. You do not care so much for us, as if we had votes.”
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“s general agent, Samuel May, Jr., reproached her for speaking on women”
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“pursue that course of conduct which, to me, appears best calculated to promote the highest good of the world.”
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“and cannot but wish there were more kindred spirits.”
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“s rights, publishing and distributing speeches by herself and others, and convention proceedings. In the long-running and influential Woman”
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BBC: Doctors remove 3.1kg stone from man's bladder and claim record
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2002· 1 entry
And have been maintaining the property ever since
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2000· 1 entry
Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls included a song entitled Lucystoners on her first solo recording, Stag
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1999· 1 entry
A series of six tall marble panels with a bronze bust in each was added to the Massachusetts State House; the busts are of Stone, Florence Luscomb, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Josephine St
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Stone was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1968· 1 entry
The 150th anniversary of her birth, the U
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1950· 1 entry
Its ruins are at the center of the property
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1921· 1 entry
The Lucy Stone League was founded in New York City by Ruth Hale, described in 1924 by Time as the "'Lucy Stone'–spouse" of Heywood Broun
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1917· 1 entry
At a time when victory for women's suffrage was coming closer, Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the NAWSA, said, "There can be no overestimating the value to the suffrage cause of the Woman's Journal
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1915· 1 entry
A pilgrimage of suffragists placed a memorial tablet on the house, which read: "This house was the birthplace of Lucy Stone, pioneer advocate of equal rights for women
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1893· 2 entries
Died 1893-10-19.
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“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”
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1892· 1 entry
Stone was convinced to sit for a portrait in sculpture rendered by Anne Whitney, a sculptor and poet
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1890· 1 entry
The Woman's Journal became its official voice and eventually the basis for a newspaper with a much wider circulation
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1887· 1 entry
Eighteen years after the rift formed in the American women's rights movement, Stone proposed a merger of the two groups
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1879· 2 entries
When Boston women were granted the franchise in school elections, Stone registered to vote
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After Stone organized a petition by suffragists across the state, Massachusetts women were given strictly delimited voting rights: a woman who could prove the same qualifications as a male voter was allowed to cast her v
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1878· 1 entry
It was 2,000 less than it had been two years earlier
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1877· 2 entries
Stone was asked by Rachel Foster Avery to assist Colorado activists in the organization of a popular referendum campaign, with the aim of gaining suffrage for Coloradan women
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Became its president, and served in that position until her death in 1893
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1872· 1 entry
Saying that he practiced free love in private while speaking out against it from the pulpit
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1871· 2 entries
“my one wish, in regard to Mrs. Woodhull, is that [neither] she, nor her ideas, may be so much as heard of at our meeting.”
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Stone wrote to a friend "my one wish, in regard to Mrs
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1870· 5 entries
Stone and Blackwell founded the Woman's Journal, an eight-page weekly newspaper based in Boston
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Differences between the two organizations remained
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At the twentieth anniversary celebration of the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, Stanton spoke for three hours, rallying the crowd for women's right to divorce
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Elizabeth Roberts Tilton told her husband Theodore Tilton that she had been carrying on an adulterous relation with his good friend Beecher
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Stone and Blackwell moved from New Jersey to Dorchester, Massachusetts, which is a neighborhood of Boston just south of downtown as of 2026
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1869· 1 entry
Stone argued that suffrage for women was more important than suffrage for African Americans
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1867· 3 entries
Wrote to Abby Kelley Foster to protest the plan to enfranchise black men first
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Published an open letter to southern legislatures, assuring them that if both blacks and women were enfranchised, "the political supremacy of your white race will remain unchanged" and "the black race would gravitate,
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Stone and Blackwell opened the AERA's difficult campaign in Kansas in support of referendums in that state that would enfranchise both African Americans and women
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1864· 1 entry
Amid wartime inflation, his investments began to pay off handsomely
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1863· 1 entry
While others went to the polls to demand their right as taxpayers to vote
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1859· 1 entry
While the family was living temporarily in Chicago, Stone miscarried and lost a baby boy
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1858· 1 entry
The city auctioned some of her household goods to pay the tax and attendant court costs
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1857· 1 entry
Stone, Wendell Phillips and James Freeman Clarke addressed the Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts senate, and on March 10, Stone and Phillips addressed a select committee of the Maine legislature
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1856· 2 entries
In Viroqua, Wisconsin, Stone gave the first women's rights and anti-slavery speech delivered by a woman in the area
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Becoming Stone's sister-in-law in the process
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1855· 2 entries
With Stone's close friend and co-worker Thomas Wentworth Higginson officiating
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Abandoned the dress altogether, and she was not involved in the formation of a National Dress Reform Association in February 1856
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1854· 1 entry
Stone gradually fell in love and in November 1854 agreed to marry Blackwell.
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1853· 6 entries
Following the National Woman's Rights Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, Stone and Lucretia Mott addressed Cincinnati's first women's rights meeting, arranged by Henry Blackwell, a local businessman from a family of cap
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Stone and Phillips addressed the convention's Committee on Qualifications of Voters
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Henry Blackwell began a two-year courtship of Stone in the summer of 1853.
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Stone drew large audiences with a lecture tour through several southern states
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That she was not ready to accept the idea, even if both parties wanted divorce
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In order to show how he could help advance Stone's work, he arranged her highly successful western lecturing tour in 1853.
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1851· 1 entry
The church expelled Stone herself
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1850· 1 entry
With the support of Garrison and other abolitionists, Stone and Paulina Wright Davis posted a notice for a meeting to consider the possibility of organizing a women's rights convention on a national basis
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1847· 2 entries
Becoming the first female college graduate from Massachusetts
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Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree
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1844· 1 entry
Stone was given a position teaching arithmetic in the Ladies Department, but, again, received reduced pay because of her sex
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1843· 1 entry
A deacon was expelled from Stone's church for his antislavery activities, which included supporting Kelley by hosting her at his home and driving her to lectures that she gave in the vicinity
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1836· 1 entry
Stone began reading newspaper reports of a controversy raging throughout Massachusetts that some referred to as the "woman question" – what was woman's proper role in society; should she assume an active and public role
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1818· 2 entries
On her family's farm at Coy's Hill in West Brookfield, Massachusetts
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Born 1818-08-13.
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