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Blackwell, Alice Stone
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September 14, 1857-March 15, 1950
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Born to suffragists Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Elizabeth Stone Blackwell was an American suffragist, journalist and human rights advocate. Her mother was one of the founders of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) and her aunt Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to obtain a medical degree in the United States.
After graduating from Boston University, Blackwell began working for her parent's paper Woman's Journal and took over primary editing responsibility after the death of her mother in 1893. In 1890 she was instrumental in reuniting the two competing American suffrage groups, the AWSA and the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) into the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
She was also a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, founded the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom, and was heavily involved in humanitarian work in Armenia. Blackwell died in 1950 at the age of 92.
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JB Nov. 2019.