Alice Stone Blackwell

Alice Stone Blackwell

Alice Stone Blackwell (born September 14, 1857 ; died March 15, 1950 ) was an American feminist , suffragist, journalist , radical socialist, and campaigner for human rights .

biography

Youth and education

Blackwell was born in East Orange , New Jersey to Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone . Her parents were leaders in the women's rights movement and helped found the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). She was also the niece of Elizabeth Blackwell , the United States' first female doctor. Her mother got Susan B Anthony to join the women's rights movement and was the first woman to graduate from college in Massachusetts, the first to keep her maiden name in marriage, and the first to make public speaking for women's rights the first had made.

Blackwell was educated at Harris Grammar School in Dorchester, Boston , Chauncy School in Boston, and Abbot Academy in Andover . She attended Boston University , where she was first in her class, and graduated from university in 1881 at the age of 24. She belonged to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society .

Professional career

Blackwell is well known for her work on women's rights. At first she was against the concerns of mother and father, later she became a well-known reformer.

After graduating from Boston University, Alice started working for Woman's Journal , the magazine her parents started. In 1884 her name was next to that of her parents in the imprint of the magazine. After the death of her mother in 1893, Alice took almost sole responsibility for the publication of the paper.

Susan B. Anthony & Alice Stone Blackwell signed NAWSA check, written by the group's treasurer Harriet Taylor Upton.

In 1890 she helped to reconcile the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association , the two competing organizations in the women's suffrage movement merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The women's movement split in 1869 because of a dispute over the extent to which women's suffrage should be linked to the suffrage of male African-Americans. The split spawned the AWSA, which her parents helped organize, and the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton . Alice Stone Blackwell was NAWSA's secretary from 1890 to 1908 and one of the national auditors in 1909 and 1910. She was a well-known employee of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union . And in 1903 she reorganized the "Society of Friends of Russian Freedom" (German: Society of Friends of Russian Freedom) in Boston.

She was also the president of the Woman Suffrage associations in New England and Massachusetts and honorary president of the League of Women Voters in Massachusetts. Alice Blackwell went blind in old age. She died on March 15, 1950 at the age of 92.

Her house in Uphams Corner is a stop on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.

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  Alice holds a copy of Woman's Journal , circa 1910.

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  Alice Stone Blackwell, third from left, with parents and friends (ca.1890)

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  Lucy Stone, the mother of Alice

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  Henry Blackwell, the father of Alice at a young age

Humanitarian aid

Alice Stone Blackwell has also been involved in humanitarian operations outside the United States. In the 1890s she traveled to Armenia, where she worked passionately for the Armenian refugee community. She sold some possessions, especially the oriental carpets from her house on "Pope's Hill" in Dorchester, to help the Armenians and to provide their children with food. And she also got help for the adults who were looking for work. In doing so, she discovered her interest in international literature. She translated many of the country's works into English, for example Armenian Poems (1896). She then went on to translate foreign literature into English, i.e. works from Hungarian, Yiddish, Mexican, French, Italian and Russian poetry.

Publications

• 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

• History of women's suffrage in the USA
• feminism
• Lucy Stone , her mother
• Elizabeth Blackwell (medic) , one of her aunts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950. Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 . Archived from the original on May 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 7, 2019. 
2. ^ Blackwell, Alice Stone 1857-1950 . In: The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom 1999.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Alice Stone Blackwell - Biography . Retrieved November 18, 2015.
4. ^ Dorchester Atheneum .
5. ↑ Education & Resources - National Women's History Museum - NWHM ( en ) Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Information: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 7, 2019. 
6. ↑ Alice Blackwell, Noted Suffragist; Daughter Of Lucy Stone And Abolitionist Leader Dies. Editor, Author Was 92 . In: 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. " 
7. ^ ^{A b c} American National Biography Online . Retrieved November 6, 2015.
8. ^ Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950. Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950: A Finding Aid . Archived from the original on May 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 18, 2015. 
9. ↑ Women Win the Vote: Who Were They? 75 Suffragists Profiled ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 30, 2011. 
10. ^ Dorchester .
11. ↑ Alice Blackwell's diary reveals 19th C. Dorchester, Boston from a Pope's Hill perspective . In: Dorchester Community News . August.
12. ^ John Leonard: Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915 . American Commonwealth Company, New York City 1914, p. 104.

Web links

• 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.
• The Carrie Chapman Catt Collection at the Library of Congress has volumes from the Alice Stone Blackwell library.