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Commonwealth Museum Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin

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Lucy Stone and the Right to Vote

Photo of a button featuring Lucy Stone and text about Lucy Stone and the Right to Vote Lucy Stone, the first Massachusetts woman to earn a college degree (Oberlin College, 1847), lectured for the American Anti-Slavery Society. At the same time she discussed issues relating to women's rights. especially the right to vote. In 1850, she helped organize the first national women's rights convention in Worcester.

Lucy Stone later founded the American Woman Suffrage Association and published the Woman's Journal, "the voice of the woman's movement."