Lucy Stone

And in eighteen thirty-eight in the chamber of the House of Representatives in Massachusetts a mob threatened to take her life.

"The mob howled, the press hissed, and the pulpit thundered." Thus the proceedings were described by Lucy Stone, the woman's rights advocate.

Even the educated classes shared the prejudice against woman.

To them she was a human being of the second order.

As early as 1821, the first institution for the higher education of women, Troy Seminary, was founded with hopes for state aid.

In 1833, Oberlin College, the first co-educational college, was opened with the express purpose, quote, of giving all the privileges of higher education to the unjustly condemned and neglected sex, end quote.

Among the first women students was the youthful woman's rights advocate, Lucy Stone.

She wished to learn Greek and Hebrew, for she was convinced that the biblical passage, quote, and he shall rule over thee, end quote, had not been correctly translated by the men.

It's the people who hold them disappear.

So I I really took it on as a personal project.

I had no intention of trying to sell it into the world.

And it was just at this time that I even learned that like Create Space existed as an example and that you could self-publish and put together something that really looked like a book.

My goal was really just to, I call it a family memoir.

I really wanted to put something in my father's hands that felt like a real book and for my family to have it as a legacy.

And so truly a personal project, but it was through doing that that I remembered how much I loved storytelling and how much I loved writing.

And the entire process made me want to do that more.

Not all of the organizers wanted to include the voting objection on the list, but it made the final cut partially thanks to the support of Frederick Douglass, who was the only African American attendee at the event.

Not long after, in 1850, abolitionists Lucy Stone and Paulina Wright Davis organized the first in a series of national women's rights conventions.

By then, thanks to the Seneca Falls meeting, women's suffrage was becoming a more familiar topic.

Stone and Davis featured the issue prominently, and the conventions began to happen annually.

The new organization brought together many of the disparate voices from prior to the war, namely Stanton and Anthony, joined with Stone, Mott, and even Frederick Douglass.

Although it was a powerful group, conflicts remained.

Some members, including Lucy Stone, wanted to focus more on suffrage for black men than for women.

Nevertheless, the women's suffrage supporters pressed on.

Um, but those, and those people tended to be women's rights advocates for sure, but women's rights advocates tended to be very Christian and Quaker.

Uh, Lot- Lucy Stone, a serious, you know, Protestant.

There were Catholic, English Catholic, um, uh, early women's rights advocates.

So those women who were most, um, radical in their occultist views were actually pushed out of the movement.

And in eighteen thirty-eight in the chamber of the House of Representatives in Massachusetts a mob threatened to take her life.

"The mob howled, the press hissed, and the pulpit thundered." Thus the proceedings were described by Lucy Stone, the woman's rights advocate.

Even the educated classes shared the prejudice against woman.

To them she was a human being of the second order.

As early as 1821, the first institution for the higher education of women, Troy Seminary, was founded with hopes for state aid.

In 1833, Oberlin College, the first co-educational college, was opened with the express purpose, quote, of giving all the privileges of higher education to the unjustly condemned and neglected sex, end quote.

Among the first women students was the youthful woman's rights advocate, Lucy Stone.

She wished to learn Greek and Hebrew, for she was convinced that the biblical passage, quote, and he shall rule over thee, end quote, had not been correctly translated by the men.

Was this door to be shut in their face?" Howe wondered.

The next year, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, and six months later, Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe founded the American Woman Suffrage Association.

The National Woman Suffrage Association wanted a general reworking of gender roles in American society, drawing from the Seneca Falls Convention that Stanton had organized in eighteen forty-eight.

That convention's Declaration of Sentiments, patterned explicitly on the Declaration of Independence, asserted that all men and women are created equal and that the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

There was plenty of room to stir, and each day the garland seemed to blossom fuller and brighter, showing how the interest grew.

There they were, the future Mary Livermore's, Edna Cheney's, Julia Howe's, Maria Mitchell's, Lucy Stone's, unconsciously getting ready to play their parts on the wider stage which those pioneers had made ready for them, before generaler critics, a wiser public, and more enthusiastic friends.

Looking from the fine gray heads which adorned the shadowy platform to the bright faces of aloft, I wanted to call out, Look, listen, and learn, my girls, then bring your sunshine and fresh air, your youth and vigor, come down to fill nobly the places of these true women, and earn for yourselves the same success which will make their names long loved and honored in the land.

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