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''Lucy Stone. photo ca. 1840 - 1860'' |
(
August_13 ,
1818 –
October_18 ,
1893 ) was an
American suffragist, 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.
Born in , from which she graduated in 1847. Her graduation from Oberlin made her the first woman of Massachusetts to earn a B.A.
Stone became a leader of the and again in
1971 (2nd edition).
Lucy Stone's refusal to be known by her 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 Name s 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 .
On her passing in 1893, Lucy stone was interred in the
Forest Hills Cemetery in
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts .
In 2000, Amy Ray of the
Indigo Girls included a song entitled "
LucyStoners " on her first solo recording,
Stag.
- Baker, Jean H. ''Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists.'' Hill and Wang, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-8090-9528-9.
