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Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. [1] In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery.
Lucy Stone, the founder of the American Woman's Suffrage Association. The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was a single-issue national organization formed in 1869 to work for women's suffrage in the United States. The AWSA lobbied state governments to enact laws granting or expanding women's right to vote in the United States.
Lucy Newhall Colman (July 26, 1817 – January 18, 1906) was a freethinker, abolitionist and feminist campaigner. She campaigned for racial justice and for the education of African Americans . Colman wrote an autobiography, called Reminiscences in 1891, covering her memories of the abolitionist movement.
The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was formed in November 1869, with Lucy Stone as its primary leader. The AWSA was initially larger and better funded, [16] but Stanton and Anthony were more widely known as leaders of the women's suffrage movement and were more influential in setting its direction. [17]
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [159] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
From “Ally McBeal” to “Elementary” “Kill Bill Vol. 1,” “Charlie’s Angels” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Presence,” Lucy Liu has created memorable characters, and the actor is ...
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“Lucy” was the name of one of Edmund Berkeley's white daughters. “Berkeley,” Lucy's middle name, followed a Virginia tradition of naming a child after a parent or grandparent. Buchanan Jones later unofficially changed her name from Lucy to Lucile. [5] In November 1872, Buchanan Jones's parents married in Virginia.