Lucy Stone - Boston, MA
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A monument honoring Lucy Stone is located on the hallway wall outside Doric Hall in the Massachusetts State House at 24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA.
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2015
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The State House Women’s Leadership Project has commemorated Lucy Stone with a monument in the Massachusetts State House. She is one of six women, so honored, that have contributed to the government of the Commonwealth. A life size relief sculpture of Lucy Stone is presented within a circular opening near the bottom of a rectangular slab of green marble.
The top of the slab has the inscription:
IN EDUCATION, in marriage, in religion, in
everything, disappointment is the lot of
woman. it shall be the business of my life to
deepen that disappointment in every woman's
heart until she bows down to it no longer.
Speech to National Woman's Rights Convention, 1855
Above her sculpture is inscribed:
AND DO NOT TELL US
BEFORE WE ARE BORN EVEN,
THAT OUR PROVINCE IS TO
COOK DINNER, DARN STOCKINGS
AND SEW BUTTONS.
WE WANT RIGHTS.
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LUCY STONE
The lower side frame of the monument has the her date of birth and death: 1818-1893
Lucy Stone was a prominent orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. She attended Oberlin College in Ohio and was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She was married to Henry B. Blackwell but retained her own name throughout her life.
She worked as a lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society. After the Civil War she became a strong advocate for women's suffrage and formed the Women's Suffrage Association of Boston. She founded and edited the Women's Journal, a weekly feminist magazine. Stone helped form the National Women's Rights Convention held October 23–24, 1850, in Worcester, MA. She also helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association, which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the state and local levels.
The Massachusetts State House is open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. All visitors must enter through the General Hooker entrance.