Who is Lucy Stone?

Answer 1

Lucy was a famous women's reformer who split with her father's beliefs that men should tell women everything to do (and they should do it.) She was involved in anti-slavery and abolitionist causes and I believe she was one of the first women to graduate from Oberlin College. And she and her husband or a friend (I can't remember for sure) published a magazine in which they championed their various causes (but I can't recall the name of the publication.) She died about the end of the 19th century around 1895 (I may be off a year or two there.)

Answer 2

b. Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, Mass., U.S.
d. Oct. 18, 1893, Dorchester, Mass.
American pioneer in the women's-rights movement.

After graduating from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1847, Stone became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, which soon granted her permission to devote part of each week to speaking on her own for women's rights. She was instrumental in organizing women's-rights conventions in the 1850s.

In 1855, when she married Henry B. Blackwell, an Ohio Abolitionist, she retained her own name (as a protest against the unequal laws applicable to married women) and became known as Mrs. Stone. After more than a decade of working for woman suffrage as New Jersey residents, she and her husband moved to Boston. There they helped establish the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869), a nationwide organization that worked for woman suffrage by state legislation, while the rival National Woman Suffrage Association urged a federal constitutional amendment. The couple also helped found the Woman's Journal, a woman suffrage weekly. From 1870 until 1917 that publication and Woman Suffrage Leaflets, both under Blackwell's editorship in Boston, were major influences in extending the suffrage movement and in paving the way for the work of the woman-suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt.

Answer 3

Prominent member of the women's suffrage and abolitionist movement.

She married the brother of the first female doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell.

She was at Seneca Falls, yes. And she also refused to take her husband's last name.