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Lucy Stanton was born free, the only child of Margaret and Samuel Stanton, on October 16, 1831. [4] When her biological father Samuel, a barber, died when she was only 18 months old, Stanton's mother married John Brown, [5] an abolitionist famous around Cleveland, Ohio, for his participation in the Underground Railroad.
On November 25, 1852, Day married Lucy Stanton, an 1846 graduate of Oberlin College. In 1858 their only child was born, Florence Day. In 1858, Day abandoned his wife and child. Day and Lucy Stanton were legally divorced in 1872. [12] In 1873, Day married Georgia F. Bell. [13] Day died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on December 3, 1900, at the age ...
Carter G. Woodson, known as the “Father of Black History,” started the first Negro History Week in 1926 to ensure students would learn Black history. It grew into Black History Month starting ...
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...
At the end of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention on May 30, 1850, an announcement was made that a meeting would be held to consider whether to hold a woman's rights convention. That evening, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis presided over a large meeting in Boston's Melodeon Hall, while Lucy Stone served as secretary.
The new book "The Color of Abolition" chronicles the movement that pushed for an end to slavery and the abolitionists who led the campaign. Author Linda Hirshman joined CBS News' Anne-Marie Green ...
“Bars Fight,” written by poet and activist Lucy Terry in 1746, was the first known poem written by a Black American. Terry was enslaved in Rhode Island as a toddler but became free at age 26 ...
Lucy Stanton may refer to: Lucy Stanton (abolitionist) (1831–1910), African American abolitionist and activist Lucy May Stanton (1875–1931), American painter