Alice Stone Blackwell
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Alice Stone Blackwell was born in East Orange, New Jersey to Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone, both of whom were suffrage leaders and helped establish the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). She was also the niece of Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first female physician. Her mother introduced Susan B. Anthony to the women's rights movement and was the first woman to earn a college degree in Massachusetts, the first to keep her own last name after getting married, and the first to speak about women's rights full-time. Blackwell was educated at the Harris Grammar School in Dorchester, the Chauncy School in Boston and Abbot Academy in Andover. She attended Boston University, where she was president of her class, and graduated in 1881. She belonged to Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Books
A campaign of slander
Defends fighters for women's suffrage against claims that they oppose marriage.
Lucy Stone
"Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of the suffragist Woman's Journal, published this biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, in 1930, a decade after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Reprinted now for the first time in thirty years, Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights is a fascinating, plainspoken document of an important era in women's history that provides a vivid, unsentimental portrait of a life dedicated to advocacy for civil rights.". "Often facing hostile audiences, Stone lectured all over the country, and she led the call for the first national woman's rights convention, which took place in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850. She brought other leaders - Susan B. Anthony and Julia Ward Howe among them - to the cause, and attended antislavery conferences with Frederick Douglass. The reissue of Blackwell's biography recognizes the significant influence of Stone's activism upon abolitionist and feminist reform ideology."--BOOK JACKET.
Gains in equal suffrage
Presents milestones in the woman suffrage effort in a chronological list.