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  Lucy Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucy Stone (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.
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.
On her passing in 1893, Lucy stone was interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucy_Stone   (311 words)

  
 Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone, "American reformer, who was a pioneer in the movement for women's rights.
Lucy was intending to lecture and Antoinette [Brown Blackwell] to preach.
When the weather grew colder, Lucy asked an old colored woman who owned a small house, the mother of one of her colored pupils, to let them have the use of her parlor.
www.oberlin.edu /external/EOG/OYTT-images/LucyStone.html   (710 words)

  
 Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stone may be used as a building material, as in this dry stone wall
A stone is a unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds.
As a verb, the intoxicating effects of cannabis, as in to be stoned.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stone   (485 words)

  
 STONE, LUCY (BLACKWELL) - LoveToKnow Article on STONE, LUCY (BLACKWELL)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
STONE, GEORGE (1708-1764), archbishop of Armagh, was the son of Andrew Stone, a London banker, and was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1733 George Stone was made dean of Ferns, and in the following year he exchanged this deanery for that of Derry; in 1740 he became bishop of Ferns, in 1743 bishop of Kildare, in 1745 bishop of Derry, and in 1747 archbishop of Armagh.
Archbishop Stone, who never married, was a man of remarkably handsome appearance; and his manners were " eminently seductive and insinuating." Richard Cumberland, who was struck by the " Polish magnificence " of the primate, speaks in the highest terms of his courage, tact, and qualities as a popular leader.
www.1911ency.org /S/ST/STONE_LUCY_BLACKWELL_.htm   (897 words)

  
 Being a Lucy Stoner
Lucy Stone was one of the major women's rights activists in the U.S. during the mid-to-late 19th century.
Lucy Stone could not vote in her home state using the name by which she was known both personally and professionally.
In the early 20th century, a "Lucy Stoner" was the common name for those who believed a woman had the right to keep the name she was born with, even after marriage.
www.segnbora.com /lucystone.html   (894 words)

  
 Loretta Cody - Lucy Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lucy Stone is the first woman from Massachusetts to receive a college degree.
Lucy Stone’s American Woman Suffrage Association was the more moderate of the two groups, known as the New England group.
Lucy was married to Henry Blackwell, a strong advocate of suffrage.
home.att.net /~womensrights/stone_bio.htm   (468 words)

  
 Lucy Stone by Patricia Chadwick
Lucy Stone was a women's right advocate that worked unceasingly to improve the condition of women in the 1800's.
Lucy Stone was born near West Brookfield, Massachusetts on August 13, 1818, the eighth of nine children.
They agreed before the marriage that Lucy would retain her maiden name and be known simply as Lucy Stone.
www.eachofus.com /ARKguest/stone.htm   (594 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Lucy Stone
Lucy Stone (1818-93), American feminist and abolitionist, born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Oberlin College.
She was noted as a lecturer on woman suffrage and as an advocate of the abolition of slavery.
Stone created controversy by retaining her maiden name after her marriage as a symbol of a woman's right to individuality.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761555323   (175 words)

  
 The Honored Women
When the baby was a few months old, Stone refused to pay the bill for the taxes on her house on the grounds that it was “taxation without representation.” The town responded by auctioning off her household goods.
Stone curtailed her lecturing during the first years of Alice’s life and was just returning to the lecture circuit when the Civil War began.
Although Stone was deeply disappointed, she supported ratification of both the 14th Amendment and the 15th, which enfranchised fl men.
www.mfh.org /specialprojects/shwlp/site/honorees/stone.html   (701 words)

  
 Open Collections Program: Women Working: Lucy Stone
The eighth of nine children born on her family's farm near West Brookfield, Massachusetts, Lucy Stone was eager to further her education despite her father's disapproval of education for women, working as a teacher at the age of sixteen to earn her own tuition to Mount Holyoke Seminary for Women.
Stone's 1855 marriage to Henry Blackwell, a fellow suffragist and abolitionist, became well-known when the couple recited vows that proclaimed their equality as a married couple, and Stone openly retained her maiden name.
Stone continued to be active in the cause of women's rights almost until her death from cancer in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1893.
ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/people_stone.html   (305 words)

  
 Oberlin Alumni Magazine :: Spring 2004
Lucy was one of the first and most outspoken advocates for women's rights and abolition in the mid-1800s.
But when Lucy Stone refused to join her peers, including Stanton and Anthony, in isolating the right for women's suffrage from that of fl men, she created a divide that nearly wrote her out of history–quite literally.
"It's an opportunity for visitors to learn about Lucy Stone at the place where she was born and where her ideas about women's rights first took form, to walk where she walked, to sit and reflect." Eventually, the Trustees hope to hire a historical portrayer to bring Lucy's voice to life for visitors.
www.oberlin.edu /alummag/spring2004/feat_lucy_03.html   (912 words)

  
 Mass Moments: Woman’s Rights Pioneer Lucy Stone Born
Lucy Stone League was formed to support women who do not change their names when they marry.
Stone is one of six women included in "Hear Us," a work of art honoring the contributions of women to public life in Massachusetts permanently installed in the State House in the fall of 1999.
Stone is one of four Worcester area women honored with portraits in the city's historic Mechanics Hall.
www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=235   (1033 words)

  
 Lucy Stone honored in Heritage park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Stone, a native of West Brookfield and one of the first women in Massachusetts to graduate from college, almost missed the Worcester convention entirely.
Stone frequently visited Gardner, where her brother, the Rev. William Bowman Stone, was the pastor of the church on Green Street.
Stone was known for her ability to rouse others to her cause, and she provided a blueprint of action to achieve goals.
www.westbrookfield.org /lstonet&g.htm   (720 words)

  
 Lucy Stone Profile - Page 1
Lucy Stone did all sorts of things “first” - she had pioneering ideas about the rights of women, and she put her ideas into action.
Lucy Stone believed that women should have equal rights with men, and she devoted her life to changing laws and customs so that women could have these equal rights.
As Lucy Stone was growing up in Massachusetts, she became angry about the way women were treated.
www.bwht.org /lucystone_profile.html   (345 words)

  
 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
When she married Henry Blackwell (brother of Elizabeth Blackwell) Lucy Stone kept her own name, thus coining the phrase "Lucy Stoner" to describe a married women who retains her maiden name.
Lucy Stone took the lead in organizing the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Lucy Stone and her husband founded and edited the organization's weekly newspaper, The Woman's Journal, which was considered "the voice of the woman's movement." Lucy Stone spent her lifetime battling for women's rights and inspiring others to join her cause.
www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=153   (408 words)

  
 Taylor2.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lucy Stone was an important and influential leader of the women's rights movement and the suffrage movement, "winning fame especially for her persuasive and moving oratory"(Zimmerman 281).
Lucy Stone spoke "with such emotional force that the Kentucky owner, there to retrieve his 'property,' sat perspiring with anguish and shame.
After the Civil War Lucy Stone would not join with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in opposing the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution which gave fl males the right to vote, but did not extend this privilege to white or fl females.
www.uncwil.edu /com/rohler/Taylor2.htm   (999 words)

  
 Lucy Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lucy Stone was born in a farmhouse on Coy Hill Road, West Brookfield, on the 13th of August 1818.
Lucy died in 1893 at the age of 75.
Although the Stone Family farm house has been destroyed by fire, the Quaboag Historical Society has installed a stone marker and a large informational sign at the site.
www.westbrookfield.org /lucystone.htm   (440 words)

  
 Stone, Lucy on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
STONE, LUCY [Stone, Lucy] 1818-93, reformer and leader in the women's rights movement, b.
I was so ashamed I couldn't even undress in front of my husband; Being seriously overweight was making Lucy's life hell, but it took utter humiliation on a girls' night out before the 15-stone young mum found the motivation to stick to a diet plan.
Lucy Baxandall, right, plays with Hendrik Nielson and his parents, Rachel and John Nielson at Palevsky Hall at the University of Chicago on October 20, 2002.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Stone-L1u.asp   (642 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ucy Stone was born on August 13, 1818, in a farmhouse on Coy Hill Road, Warren Massachusetts.
Lucy was the first woman to graduate from a Massachusetts college.
Lucy's farm house was unfortunately recently destroyed by fire.
www.berkshire.net /~quaboag/communit/1999cyber/lucystone.html   (314 words)

  
 Lucy Stone Profile - Page 2
In 1850, Lucy helped organize the first national woman’s rights convention in Worchester, Massachusetts, and delivered a speech which convinced many of the women in the audience to join the campaign for woman’s rights.
In 1855, at age 37, Lucy Stone married Henry Blackwell.
Lucy Stone was now related to a very remarkable woman’s rights family: Henry Blackwell’s sisters, Elizabeth and Emily, were two of the first American women to become doctors, and his brother was married to Antoinette Brown, the first American woman to be ordained as a minister.
www.bwht.org /lucystone_profile1.html   (293 words)

  
 Lucy Stone Home Site - The Trustees of Reservations
Lucy Stone, the "morning star" of the women's rights movement, was born on her family's farm on Coy's Hill in West Brookfield in 1818.
Stone played a prominent role in organizing the first National Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester in 1850, and remained at the center of the women's rights struggle for almost half a century until her death in 1893.
The Lucy Stone Home Site offers a special opportunity to teach future generations about this remarkable woman and her role in an important chapter of our nation's history.
www.thetrustees.org /pages/1613_lucy_stone_home_site.cfm   (613 words)

  
 Meet Lucy Stone
Black introduces you to Lucy Stone, a woman many called "the shining star" of the anti-slavery and woman's rights movements, and gives you a view of mid 19th-century America through the eyes of a woman who spent her life working to make the world better.
At a time when women who dared to speak in public were greeted with ridicule, harassment and harsh criticism, Lucy Stone made her living speaking out about the two most controversial issues of her time: slavery and the legal subordination of women.
Lucy Stone is also featured in the Making the World Better curriculum packet, available to teachers, free of charge, from the Foundation.
www.mfh.org /specialprojects/shwlp/site/meetlucy   (321 words)

  
 Votes for Women! - Lucy Stone to Mariana Folsom, 1885 - Page 1 - Texas State Library
Lucy Stone was one of the pioneers of the women's suffrage movement.
From childhood, she questioned her father's right to rule the household and her brother's right to be educated when she was the better student.
Lucy Stone to Mariana Folsom, January 22, 1885, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/suffrage/battle/stone-folsom-1.html   (406 words)

  
 Women, Men and Suffrage
Stone recalled her disappointment at having delivered a girl baby because, she said, a woman’s life was so hard.
Lucy learned from her mother’s example that a married woman’s lot was an endless series of pregnancies and the harshest manual labors.
Father Stone concurred, saying, "Luce’s [sic] face is like a flsmith’s apron; it keeps off the sparks." But in her mid-thirties, after nursing brother Luther to his death in Indiana, she made the acquaintance of Henry B. Blackwell, owner of a hardware store in Cincinnati.
web.indstate.edu /aauw-in/women7.html   (933 words)

  
 Lucy Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, on August 13, 1818.
In 1855, Lucy married the Ohio abolitionist Henry B. Blackwell.
In 1861, Lucy was elected president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association, which she also helped organize.
www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/stone.html   (227 words)

  
 Lucy Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lucy Stone grew up in a house and family were woman were thought to be useless.
Lucy Stone at a young age told herself that she was not going to be a house wife.
Lucy organized the American Woman Suffrage Association, a more moderate wing of the movement, and together she and Blackwell founded and edited the organization's weekly newspaper, The Woman's Journal.
www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/WH/bjv/bjv.htm   (440 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Lucy Stone (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Lucy Stone 1818–93, reformer and leader in the women's rights movement, b.
After her death it was edited by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell.
In 1921 the Lucy Stone League was formed to continue the battle for women's rights.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Stone-Lu.html   (251 words)

  
 Tsongas Industrial History Center - ClassRoom Activities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Document 7, Lucy Stone's Desire to Attend College, is one of twelve primary source documents that students can use to investigate the ideal of and struggle for equal rights now and in the past.
Lucy found the Bible used to justify the subjection of wives to husbands and of women to men.
Lucy said, "I too will go to college and learn Greek." But the family all laughed her to scorn and said a girl can't learn Greek or go to college.
www.uml.edu /tsongas/activities/make_better_world.htm   (409 words)

  
 Lucy Stone
As well as speaking about the evils of slavery, Stone also advocated woman's suffrage and was responsible for recruiting Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe to the movement.
Lucy's last words to her daughter were "make the world better".
Lucy Stone died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on 18th October, 1893.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWstone.htm   (575 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Back to School Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery (Lucy Stone Mysteries (Paperback)): Books: Leslie Meier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lucy, helping Pennysaver editor Ted Stillings write the story, is intrigued by Carol's past, in which heroic rescues seem to have figured prominently, and by her connections to Lucy's seductive English professor Quentin Rea and to the town's fundamentalist preacher DeWalt Smythe and school politics.
As usual Lucy is convinced the wrong person has been arrested for the murder and so she sets out to solve the crime herself.
In this story, Lucy was preoccupied with herself, and her family took a backseat as she tried to discover a murderer and contemplated an affair; a not-so-believable twist in the plot.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1575663309?v=glance   (1667 words)

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