Alice Stone Blackwell

Alice Stone Blackwell (September 14, 1857 – March 15, 1950) was an American feminist, journalist and human rights advocate. The daughter of Henry Brown Blackwell and Lucy Stone, she was born in East Orange, New Jersey. Alice was educated at the Harris Grammar School in Dorchester, the Chauncy School in Boston and at Boston University where she graduated from 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. From 1890 to 1908 Alice Stone Blackwell was the National American Woman Suffrage Association's (NAWSA) recording secretary and...