Suffragist, Editor, Activist Alice Stone BlackwellLibrary of Congress
Alice Stone Blackwell was the daughter of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey, on September 14, 1857.
After graduating from Boston University, Alice Stone Blackwell worked on the Women’s Journal. She took on the editing responsibility of the paper after the death of her mother in 1893.
Alice helped reconcile the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association. These were competing organizations formed from the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) in the women’s suffrage movement. There was a schism in 1869 over disputes over how women’s suffrage should be tied to African-American male suffrage. This split created the AWSA, which her parents helped organize, and the NWSA, headed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. After 1890, the two organizations (with the support of Alice Stone Blackwell) united to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Alice was also president of the New England and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage associations and honorary president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters.
Alice was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, radical socialist, and human rights advocate.
Alice Stone Blackwell died in Cambridge, Mass. on March 15, 1950.