She
was a pioneer in so many ways. But not the
little-house-in-the-prairie way!
Lucy
Stone is credited as being the first woman from Massachusetts to earn
a college degree, and the first woman in all of America to keep her
own last name after marriage. She spoke out against slavery and for
women's rights at a time when women weren't supposed to speak
publicly about anything.
She
helped set up the first National Women's Rights Convention, and later
the Women's National Loyal League, which helped pass the Thirteenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (which abolished slavery), and
later the American Woman Suffrage Association, which helped to
(eventually) win the right for women to vote.
And
at one of Lucy Stone's speeches, she inspired another woman to take
up the cause of women's suffrage. That woman was Susan B. Anthony.
Born
on this date in 1818, Lucy Stone's last words to her daughter were,
“Make the world better.” I think that should be a motto to live
by for all of us, don't you?
- Celebrate Lucy Stone by watching this short, info-packed video.
- You might want to check out this short biography, written by a student.
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