Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was married to the radical Henry Blackwell in 1855 after a mutual declaration rejecting the legal superiority of the man in marriage, she gained wide publidty when she chose to retain her own surname despite her marriage.
Short Biography:
The epithet "Lucy Stoner" was coined to mean a woman who advocated doing the same.
In the 1860s she helped to establish the American Woman Suffrage Association and founded and edited the Boston Woman's Journal, a suffragist paper which was later edited by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950).
Why is Lucy Stone famous?
Lucy Stone was an American feminist orator and editor.
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