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Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone. By Dominica Zdonek. Content. Who she fought for:. Why:. Learned faster than her brother but he was educated and she wasn’t Hated seeing her mother beg her father for money Women should be just as equal as men are

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Lucy Stone

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  1. Lucy Stone By Dominica Zdonek

  2. Content Who she fought for: Why: Learned faster than her brother but he was educated and she wasn’t Hated seeing her mother beg her father for money Women should be just as equal as men are Bible was quoted to her, defending the positions of men and women She said she'd learn Greek and Hebrew so she could correct the mistranslation • Women: • They aren’t treated equally • Lucy was unhappy from lack of support from family • No one believed she should receive an education

  3. Content How they were treated unequally: Why it was necessary to fight: If they didn’t speak for their rights no one else would They would have no other way to fight It caused several limitations • Not able to read speeches even at an all woman’s college • No support for education • Couldn’t vote • Weren’t seen as powerful as a man

  4. What did she do for equality? • In 1839 Stone went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary • Her father did support her wanting an education so she became a teacher for money • 4 years later, she had saved enough to go to Oberlin College, Ohio (first college in the country to accept women and blacks) • In 1847, she graduated Oberlin College and was as to write a commencement speech however she refused • Women were not allowed to give public address and she didn’t want someone else to read it for her • First woman in Massachusetts to receive a degree • Stone gave her first public speech on women's rights at her brother's Congregational Church in Gardner, Massachusetts

  5. Her fight for Equality • At a 1850 convention in Seneca Falls she was credited with saying that Susan B Anthony was the cause of woman suffrage. • It inspired John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor to publish "The Enfranchisement of Women” • Convinced Julia Ward Howe to adopt women's rights as a cause along with abolition • Henry Blackwell, seven years younger, courted Stone for two years • Lucy was impressed when he rescued a fugitive slave from her owners during the time of the Fugitive Slave Law (which required anyone of non-slave-holding states to give escaped slaves back to the owners) • A year after Stone was hired to organize the American Anti-Slavery Society • She traveled around and spoke on weekends about abolition and weekdays on women's rights • They got married however Lucy Stone protested the marriage laws of the time by publicizing that she would keep own last name

  6. How did people react to her Fighting? • Stone’s talks for the American Anti-Slavery Society caused hostility • People tore down her posters publicizing her talks, burned pepper where she spoke, and assaulted her with prayer books and other weapons • She was expelled by her Congregational Church for her views and public speaking • The refused to recognize woman as able to vote for things in the Congregation • Also refused their criticism of the Grimke sisters who spoke out against slavery and women’s rights • In 1879, Massachusetts school committee created a limited right to vote • In Boston, Lucy Stone was refused to be able to vote • The only way she could vote is if she used her husband’s name • On legal documents and registering at hotels with her husband, she was required to sign as "Lucy Stone, married to Henry Blackwell," in order for them to validate her signature

  7. How this affected American culture as a whole: • Was the first women to receive a college degree • Motivated other young women to do the same • Refused to take her husband’s last name when married • People don’t always take their husband’s last name/hyphenate it • Refused to write commencement speech because she wouldn’t be able to read it • Now anyone with any gender or race can give a public address

  8. Words That will last forever "I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex." (1847) • Many people are fighting for slaves however they forget that women’s rights are being violated too • There needs to be something done in order to make everyone equal • Lucy Stone’s goal is to make everyone equal not just rich, white men but also slaves, women, and children • It will allow no one to be disrespected due to race, gender, or wealth

  9. Works cited • "Lucy Stone Biography." About.com Women's History. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2014 • "Lucy Stone Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014.

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