Lucy Stone was born in a family with nine children in rural Massachusetts. She was raised in the congregational church and followed her father’s steps by joining the anti-slavery zeal. Her dedication to wanting to end inequalities was the main reason why she stood out among her family and in the world. Women at that time did not have many options when it came to education since they were raised to be in charge of the house, children, brothers, fathers and husbands from a really young age. Lucy began to demonstrate her abilities when at sixteen years old, she worked as a teacher to be able to pay for her own studies. She was able to attend Mount Holyoke, however, she later graduated from Oberlin College in 1847. Lucy Stone became the first woman to receive a college degree. This event had a great impact on society since it broke stereotypes and motivated more women to fulfil their purposes. After showing her abilities, she began to receive many threats, attacks, and abuse from others, however, she did not stop and continued to surpass herself to prove that there should be no inequality just because of the gender with which a person was born. In her thirties, she was hired to …show more content…
In 1865 she became president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association, planned the New England Association, and provided her services on the executive committee of the American Equal Rights Association. In 1869, together with other abolitionists, they were able to allow black people to vote but not women, which motivated Lucy to continue fighting for their rights.Stone had a role in the modification of the AWSA publication, the Woman's Journal and in 1879 she achieved that in Massachusetts women were allowed to vote, however she was withdrawn from their positions because she did not carry her husband's last