Today is the birthday, in 1818, of Lucy Stone. She was was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women’s rights and against slavery. Stone was known for using her birth name, after marriage, contrary to the custom of women taking their husband’s surname.
Stone’s organizational activities for the cause of women’s rights yielded tangible gains in the difficult political environment of the 19th century. Stone helped initiate the first National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she supported and sustained it, annually, along with a number of other local, regional, and state activist conventions. She assisted in establishing the Woman’s National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the local and state levels.
Stone wrote, extensively, about a wide range of women’s rights, publishing and distributing speeches by herself and others, and convention proceedings. In the long-running and influential Woman’s Journal, a weekly periodical that she founded and promoted, Stone aired both her own and differing views about women’s rights. Called “the orator”, the “morning star,” and the “heart and soul” of the women’s rights movement, Stone influenced Susan B. Anthony to take up the cause of women’s suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote that “Lucy Stone was the first person by whom the heart of the American public was deeply stirred on the woman question.” Together, Anthony, Stanton, and Stone have been called the 19th-century “triumvirate” of women’s suffrage and feminism.
Daguerreotype of Lucy Stone, American suffragist
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Today is the birthday, in 1938, of American musician Scott Powell, best known as one of the founders of the rock and roll group Sha Na Na. They played at Woodstock Festival, made possible with help from their friend Jimi Hendrix. The group hosted Sha Na Na, a syndicated variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981. The group also appeared in the movie Grease as Johnny Casino & The Gamblers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isvK4PzeA4c
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