American suffragists

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 175. Chapters: Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, L. Frank Baum, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, Crystal Eastman, Lucy Stone, Jeannette Rankin, Grace Raymond Hebard, Ida B. Wells, Hannah Tracy Cutler, Lucy Burns, Florence Jaffray Harriman, Angelina Grimké, Constance Drexel, Mary Burnett Talbert, Frances Willard, Lucretia Mott, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Emily Newell Blair, Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Stephen Symonds Foster, Rhoda Fox Graves, Josephine K. Henry, Katherine Bement Davis, Charlotte Anita Whitney, Fola La Follette, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Clara Lemlich, Alice Paul, Eliza Calvert Hall, Anne Dallas Dudley, Ernestine Rose, Abigail Scott Duniway, Abigail Bush, Harriet Bishop, Mary Lilly, Frances Munds, Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Olympia Brown, M. Carey Thomas, Mary Hall, Carrie Chapman Catt, Deborah Fisher Wharton, Louise Bryant, Anna Adams Gordon, Sara Yorke Stevenson, Mary Elliott Flanery, Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, Belle Case La Follette, Jennie C. Van Ness, Margretta Dietrich, Laura Clay, Ida Sammis, Fannie Barrier Williams, Susan McKinney Steward, Inez Milholland, Amelia Bloomer, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, Alyse Gregory, Mary Foote Henderson, Mary Ann Shadd, Iron Jawed Angels, Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Lois Waisbrooker, Clara S. Foltz, Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Anna Johnson Gates, Elizabeth Selden Rogers, Ruth Hanna McCormick, Pauline O'Neill, Ada James, Ruth May Fox, Sarah J. Garnet, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Livermore, Patti Ruffner Jacobs, Gertrude Weil, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Ella Flagg Young, Florence Luscomb, Emma Bugbee, Susa Young Gates, Henrietta Wells Livermore, Aurelia Spencer Rogers, Ida Husted Harper, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Annie Bidwell, Marie Howland, William Dudley Foulke, Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney, Helga Estby, May Arkwright, Zerelda G. Wallace, Doris Stevens, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Ellen A. Martin, Laura Freele Osborn, Margherita Arlina Hamm, Margaret B. Laird, Mae Taylor Nystrom, Elizabeth Freeman, Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Virginia Minor, Hattie Hooker Wilkins, Agnes Nestor, Jessie Belle Hardy Stubbs MacKaye, Hortense Sparks Ward, Harriet Taylor Upton, May Wright Sewall, Tennessee Celeste Claflin, Julia Sears, Glenna Smith Tinnin, Rosalie Gardiner Jones, Maria Young Dougall, Adelina Otero-Warren, Rachel Foster Avery, Helen Hamilton Gardener, Virginia Clay-Clopton, Esther Pohl Lovejoy, Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, Frances Maule Bjorkman, Sarah Granger Kimball, Alma Bennett Morgan, Mary Cheney Greeley, Mary Edith Campbell, Mary Barr Clay, Nellie Fassett, Maud Nathan, Lavinia Dock, Ida Craft, Anita Calvert Lebourgeoise, Lila Meade Valentine, Fanny Garrison Villard, Annie Arniel, Maud Humphrey, Mattie Griffith Browne, Nell Mercer. Excerpt: Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 19, 1893) was a prominent American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was the first recorded American woman to retain her own last name after marriage. Stone's organizational activities for the cause of women's rights yielded tangible gai...