Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone

1818-1893

• Reformer and leader in the women's rights movement
• Born near West Brookfield, MA
• Graduated from Oberlin College in 1847
• Regular lecturer for the Anti-Slavery Society
• In 1855 she married Henry Brown Blackwell, but was always known as Mrs. Stone
• In 1870 she founded the Woman's Journal, the official publication of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National American Woman Suffrage Association
• After her death in 1893, the Woman's Journal was edited by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell