Lucy Stone
(1818-1893)
“Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was an early advocate of antislavery and women’s rights… After the Civil War, Lucy Stone joined Frederick Douglass and others who supported the Fifteenth Amendment as a partial gain, as they continued to work for women’s rights. The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment outraged most women’s rights leaders’ because the right to vote was not guaranteed to women… Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe led others to form the American Woman Suffrage Association, which [in contrast with the NAWSA] chose to focus on state suffrage amendments.” (National Park Service)
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