What Were Lucy Stone's Accomplishments

A woman who got a spot in history and had life changing accomplishments was Lucy Stone. She was considered the first woman to take many different actions. Her father, Francis Stone, along with her mother, Hannah Matthews Stone, believed that the male should be dominant over the female. Growing up in the 1800’s that’s what everyone believed was right. It was the “age-old norm”. Her father told her that belief was written in the Bible but she was determined to find out if it was true. “Soon, however, she began to suspect the man made translations of the Scriptures and decided to study Greek and Hebrew to find out whether they were correct.” (U.S. History in Context 1). The women cooked and watched the kids while the men worked and earned an education. Stone had a different mentality. She saw her brothers grow up and go to school including college but she was never encouraged to do the same. Instead she pushed herself to gain an education and work. She loved publicly speaking and teaching others what she believed was right. Lucy was a women that spoke her thoughts and had a voice bigger than her own self. She did not care …show more content…
One being the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the other being the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) which Lucy was in. Susan B. Anthony, who was a huge fan of Lucy, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton did not agree with Lucy when she said she supported the Fifteenth Amendment. This amendment forbids the disfranchisement of African-American men. Anthony and Stanton didn’t think it made sense to support that amendment when it had nothing to do with women’s rights. But Lucy always supported more than just her right’s. “AWSA worked for the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, and viewed NWSA as racist for its failure to do the same.” (U.S. History in Context). Finally in 1890 they came back together as one group all thanks to Lucy’s daughter Alice Stone