Lucy Stone was an abolitionist and women's rights advocate whose accomplishments were many -- including being the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She was born August 13, 1818.
- Learn more about this fascinating life: Lucy Stone: A Soul As Free As the Air
- You can also sample some of the words of this early women's rights worker: Lucy Stone Quotes
- And then there's her unusual -- for its time -- marriage ceremony: Marriage Protest of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell
- Lucy Stone looks back in 1893 at The Progress of Fifty Years
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