Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, radical socialist, and human rights, advocate. She was the editor of a prominent American women’s rights newspaper.
Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Blackwell was the daughter of Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone. They were both suffrage leaders and helped organize the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA.) Alice Stone Blackwell graduated with honors from Boston University in 1881 and joined the editorial staff of the Woman’s Journal, a journal of AWSA.
Blackwell became the authoritative force on the journal and urged her mother to appease the suffrage movement’s radical wing. Blackwell was the recording secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association 1890–1918. She remained the chief editor of the Woman’s Journal until 1917. During 1887–1905, she edited and distributed the Woman’s Column, a publication of suffrage news articles, to newspapers across the U.S.
Blackwell was also active in several humanitarian acts outside of the U.S. She translated and published numerous volumes of verse, notably Armenian Poems (1896, 1916,) Songs of Russia (1906,) Songs of Grief and Gladness (1908; from Yiddish,) and Some Spanish-American Poets (1929.) She wrote against czarist tyranny in The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution—Catherine Breshkovsky’s Own Story (1917.)
Blackwell published a biography of her mother, Lucy Stone, Pioneer in Women’s Rights (1930.)
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
—Alice Stone Blackwell
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