{"id":107,"date":"2012-08-25T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2013-07-24T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:04:47","slug":"lucy-stone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/historic-interpretation\/lucy-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Stone, reformer, West Brookfield, MA (1818-1893)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lucy Stone\u00a0(August 13, 1818 \u2013 October 19, 1893) has often connected with Karen Board Moran across the centuries beginning \u00a0during a 1991 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at Harvard. \u00a0Stone had overlooked the Mississippi River at LaCrosse, Wisconsin during her lecture tour in 1856. \u00a0Over 100 years later Moran also enjoyed that view at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse\u00a0where she earned her B.A. in Physical Education and History\u00a0in 1968.<\/p>\n

Moran did her student teaching in Viroqua, Wisconsin<\/a> (where her great grandfather earned his teaching degree three generations earlier). \u00a0It was here on 4 July 1856 Lucy Stone\u00a0“Morning Star of the Woman’s Rights Movement” delivered the first woman’s rights address and anti slavery speech ever given by a woman in the great northwest. The platform broke down. Rising unhurt she cried “So will this nation fall unless slavery is abolished.” \u00a0Stone owned property in this area.<\/p>\n

Armed with a\u00a0\u00a0M.Ed. in History from Worcester State College in 1989, Moran started developing lessons to engage her students and fellow teachers in finding women’s stories from the past. \u00a0She helped students understand why the “bloomer” costume was so much more freeing that wearing a skirt covering 15 pounds of petticoats and a tight laced corset.<\/p>\n

When Moran retired to Tucson, Arizona in 2005, she was delighted to discover Lucy Stone’s reach to the southwest. \u00a0Two years before her death, Stone had sent Laura Johns of Kansas to work with Tucsonan Josephine Brawly Hughes to help form the Arizona Territory Equal Suffrage Association (1891) as part of the\u00a0<\/span>National American Woman Suffrage Association’s effort to gain suffrage for Arizona women.<\/p>\n

Lucy Stone’s message is still valid today. \u00a0Moran’s son Chris, a teacher in Stone’s home town, created this website to help his mother share her work.<\/p>\n

Lucy Stone: Rebel and Reformer of New England, Lesson created for 1991 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute American History: New Scholarship on Women.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Lucy Stone: Central Massachusetts Reformer.<\/strong>\u00a0This lesson created for 1991 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute American History: New Scholarship on Women include<\/span>s t<\/span><\/span>wo brief sketches of lessons dealing with the Woman’s Rights Movement evolved from research at the Radcliffe-Schlesinger Library.<\/p>\n

1) H<\/b>ave eighth grade students take on the roles in Scene 7 “Mother’s Flag<\/span>“<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of Maud Wood Park’s Lucy Stone: a chronicle play. <\/em>Students hear the language of the day\u00a0as the Committee on Constitutional Amendments hears the arguments for and against House Resolution No. 325, providing for the submission of an amendment to the State Constitution to give the women of Massachusetts the right to vote in all elections. \u00a0Massachusetts was home of the oldest and most influential anti-suffrage organization of women in the United States. \u00a0At the time of the scene in 1903, only four states had the vote: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho. \u00a0A similar scene occurred in every state! \u00a0There are 19 parts plus a narrator which the teacher could read. \u00a0This lesson requires students to stand when testifying and listen carefully to every speaker so they can determine who are the main groups, who had the strongest argument and which committee member was pro suffrage. \u00a0It was helpful to pause after each speaker to note the specific argument and the teacher should determine if there are words that need definition for the class. \u00a0Massachusetts was the 8th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution on 4 June 1919 with 47 voting against in the House and 5 voting against in the Senate. \u00a0Gaining the right to vote for women was a long battle! \u00a0This lesson shows:<\/p>\n