Author: Lois K. Porter
Lois K. Porter is founder and vice president of the Washington Area Secular Humanists and a Secular Humanist Mentor. She graduated from Oberlin College some years after Lucy Stone.
Lucy Stone: Woman of Firsts
Lucy Stone made history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton considered her “the first person by whom the heart of the American public was deeply stirred on the woman question,” and her biographer, Elinor Rice Hays, called her “Morning Star.” Independent in mind and spirit from her earliest years, she was the first woman in Massachusetts and one …
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