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Alice Stone Blackwell (September 14, 1857 – March 15, 1950) was an American Feminist, suffragist, Journalist, and Human_rights advocate.
Biography
editAlice Stone Blackwell | |
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 Alice Stone Blackwell, between 1880 and 1900 | |
| Born | September 14, 1857 |
| Died | March 15, 1950 (aged 92) |
| Resting place | Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Boston University |
| Movement | Feminism Radical socialism[2] |
| Parent(s) | Lucy Stone Henry Browne Blackwell |
| Relatives | Elizabeth Blackwell (aunt) |
Alice Stone Blackwell was the daughter of Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone, both of whom were suffrage leaders and helped establish the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). She was born in East Orange, New Jersey.[3] She was also the niece of Elizabeth Blackwell, America's first female physician.[4]
Alice was educated at the Harris Grammar School in Dorchester, the Chauncy School in Boston, Abbot Academy in Andover, and Boston University, from where she graduated in 1881 at age 24. She belonged to Phi Beta Kappa Society. She was an editor (1881–1917) of the Woman's Journal, the major publication of the women's rights movement at that time, first as assistant to her parents and after their deaths as Editor in chief.[5]
From 1890 to 1908, Alice Stone Blackwell was the National American Woman Suffrage Association's recording secretary and in 1909 and 1910 one of the national auditors. She was also prominent in Woman's Christian Temperance Union activities. In 1903 she reorganized the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in Boston.
Women's Rights Activism
editAlice is well known for her work towards women's rights. At first resisting the cause of her mother and father, she later became a prominent reformer. [5] After graduating from Boston University, Alice began working for the Woman's Journal, the paper started by her parents. By 1884, her name was alongside her parents' on the paper's masthead. After her mother's death in 1893, Alice assumed almost sole editing responsibility of the paper.[7]
Alice was instrumental in the reunification of the women's suffrage movement in the 1880s. The movement had become split in 1869 over disputes over the degree to which women's suffrage should be tied to African-American male suffrage. This split created the AWSA, which her parents helped organize, and the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), headed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Being a prime negotiator between the two associations, Alice helped to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). She served as the recording secretary of the organization for nearly twenty years after its creation.[7]
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Blackwell holding a copy of Woman's Journal, around 1910. -
Alice Stone Blackwell
Humanitarianism
editAlice Stone Blackwell was also involved in humanitarian acts outside of the United States. In the 1890s, she traveled to Armenia, where she became passionately involved in the Armenian refugee community. She sold some of her possessions in order to feed Armenian children, and she also provided assistance to adults looking for jobs. This is also when she discovered her interest in international literature. She translated many of the country's works into English in Armenian Poems (1896). She would continue translating literature into English, including works of Hungarian, Yiddish, Mexican, French, Italian, and Russian poetry. [7][8]
Publications
edit- Growing Up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872–1874
- Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights (published 1930, reprinted 1971)
- Some Spanish-American Poets translated by Alice Stone Blackwell (published 1929 by D. Appleton & Co.)
- Armenian Poems translated by Alice Stone Blackwell (1st vol., 1896; 2nd vol., 1917). OCLC 4561287.
- Songs of Russia (1906)
- Songs of Grief and Joy translated from the Yiddish of Ezekiel Leavitt (1908)
See also
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References
edit- ^ "Nch8501/sandbox". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
- ^ Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950. Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950
- ^ "Blackwell, Alice Stone (1857-1950)". From suffrage to the Senate: America's political women.
- ^ "Blackwell, Alice Stone 1857 - 1950". The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 1999.
- ^ a b "Alice Blackwell, Noted Suffragist; Daughter Of Lucy Stone And Abolitionist Leader Dies. Editor, Author Was 92". The New York Times. March 16, 1950.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 15, 1950 (AP) Alice Stone Blackwell, internationally known women's suffrage leader, died tonight at her home after a week's illness. Her age was 92.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Women Win the Vote: Who Were They? 75 Suffragists Profiled
- ^ a b c "American National Biography Online". www.anb.org. Retrieved 2015-11-06.
- ^ Leonard, John (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. New York City: American Commonwealth Company. p. 104.
External links
edit- Alice Stone Blackwell—detailed biography, her translations of Armenian, Yiddish and Russian poetry.
- Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885–1950. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
- Papers, 1835–1960. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
- Carrie Chapman Catt Collection at the Library of Congress has volumes from the library of Alice Stone Blackwell.