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In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Lucy Stone. She lived from 1818 - 1893.
Lucy set another precedent in 1858 when she reminded Americans of the "no taxation without representation" principle. Her refusal to pay property taxes was punished by the impoundment and sale of the Stone's household goods. At the end of the Civil War, Lucy went to Kansas to work on the referendum for suffrage there. She also served as president of the New Jersey Women Suffrage Association and helped organise the New England association, in which she would be active after the family moved to Boston in 1869. At the same time, Lucy served on the executive committee of the American Equal Rights Association.
In 1869, Lucy broke with suffragists Elizabther Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and others over passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which granted voting rights to black men but not to women. Lucy was willing to accept this measure for her abolitionist goals while continuing to work for women's suffrage. Elizabeth and Susan formed the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA). Lucy, Julia Ward Howe, and others formed the American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA). Lucy edited the AWSA publication, the Woman's Journal. in 1879. Lucy registered to vote in Massachusetts, since the state allowed women's suffrage in some local elections, but she was removed from the rolls because she did not use her husband's surname.
Lucy lived to see the reunifications of the two suffrage associations in 1890. She gave her last speech in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition and died later that year at age 75.
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