Lucy Stone

How she defended women's rights to vote, to sit on juries, birth control, freedom of speech, etc., etc., etc.,

She was a member of the Lucy Stone League also, which was an organization devoted to promoting women keeping their maiden name after marriage because Lucy Stone did that.

I don't know anything about Lucy Stone.

I got to go look that up.

That's awesome.

If we don't fight for each other, does all just work? I thought about Susan B.

Anthony and Lucy Stone Who fought for women when they couldn't vote I heard Fannie Lou Hamer singing her songs When I went out that day With my kid and a baby Bjorn To the school near my house in the pre-dawn There was a line of people in my big city home And I knew everyone was there I was happy to wait I was cold but warm And the sun came up

This is a group of students.

Some of them are students of mine.

A Group of Famous Women by Edith Horton.

Lucy Stone, 1818-1893.

Woman is a creation between men and the angels.

Honoré de Balzac.

A little later, she was earning $16 a month, and when her brother, who received $30 a month for teaching, became ill, Lucy took his place, receiving $16 for exactly the same work.

The committee said that $16 was enough for a woman.

Lucy Stone studied for a while at Mount Hollyoak Seminary under Mary Lyon and also at Wilbraham Academy and later at Oberlin College, Ohio, which was then the only college in the country willing to admit women, all the while paying her own tuition fees by means of teaching and doing housework in boarding houses.

When the question of slavery came into prominence, lucy stone quickly took her position as a friend of the slave she taught in a school for colored people which was established at oberlin and her first public speech was made in their behalf though severely criticized for her public speaking and obliged to bear unpleasant comment because of it she never swerved from her idea of what she believed to be right Soon she was engaged by the Anti-Slavery Society, in which William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips were officers, to lecture for their cause, and while doing so, traveled over the greater part of the United States, speaking both for woman suffrage and for the abolition of slavery.

The guy's had a couple of bad games, but it's just interesting.

Another shift, should Christian wives take their husband's last name? Ladies, what about that? Does taking your husband's last name when you become married, is that the ultimate submission, I guess, insult? In 1855, a suffraist named Lucy Stone refused to take her husband's last name, a quiet rebellion that modern feminists view as one of the first major blows against the patriarchy.

We'll find out more about that when we dive into that story.

I think this is going to be interesting.

And I want to talk about this whole name thing and voting because this is not new for women.

Have you ever heard of this woman named Lucy Stone? So Lucy was a suffragette in the 1800s.

Okay.

So when she got married in 1855, like a little rebel, she kept her own last name, which scandal, the absolute scandal.

I think even now people are like, what do you mean you're keeping your last name? Like I said in the beginning, 85% of women change their name when they get married.

I changed my name when I got married.

So women actually who kept their own names were called Lucy Stoners for decades after that because of what she did.

Okay, so she got married in 1855.

A Group of Famous Women by Edith Horton.

Lucy Stone, 1818-1893.

Woman is a creation between men and the angels.

Honoré de Balzac.

A little later, she was earning $16 a month, and when her brother, who received $30 a month for teaching, became ill, Lucy took his place receiving $16 for exactly the same work.

The committee said that $16 was enough for a woman.

Lucy Stone studied for a while at Mount Hollyoak Seminary under Mary Lyon and also at Wilbraham Academy and later at Oberlin College, Ohio, which was then the only college in the country willing to admit women, all the while paying her own tuition fees by means of teaching and doing housework in boarding houses.

When the question of slavery came into prominence, lucy stone quickly took her position as a friend of the slave she taught in a school for colored people which was established at oberlin and her first public speech was made in their behalf though severely criticized for her public speaking and obliged to bear unpleasant comment because of it she never swerved from her idea of what she believed to be right Soon she was engaged by the Anti-Slavery Society, in which William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips were officers, to lecture for their cause, and while doing so, traveled over the greater part of the United States, speaking both for woman suffrage and for the abolition of slavery.

These names, Lucretia Coffin Mott.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony.

Wow.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton makes sense.

I wish they would've been more, uh, people that were brought up in history class and whatnot.

I actually, the first time I ever heard about Lucy Stone was, uh, I was listening to another podcast.

I love podcasts.

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... accurate.

Um, and sh- the whole episode was about Lucy Stone, and she was one of only seven women invited to test out coeducation-

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