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Call No.: M-133, reel D2; WRC 17-21
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950
Title: Woman's Rights Collection (WRC)
Quantity: Folders 17-21
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Alice Stone Blackwell, writer and suffragist. These papers are part of the Woman's Rights Collection.

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BIOGRAPHY

Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, was born in Orange, N.J., but spent most of her life in and around Boston. After graduating from Boston University in 1881, ASB joined her parents at The Woman's Journal, the woman's rights newspaper they had founded and edited. Over the next 35 years, she played a leading role in writing and editing the Journal.

ASB was instrumental in bringing about the reconciliation of the National and American Woman Suffrage associations in 1890, and for almost twenty years served as secretary of the new National American Woman Suffrage Association. Among her other positions were president of the New England and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage associations and honorary president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters.

A self-proclaimed radical socialist, ASB supported numerous humanitarian causes. She was affiliated with Friends of Russian Freedom, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the NAACP, among other organizations. With the help of foreign-born friends, ASB translated into English the works of Mexican, Armenian, Russian, Yiddish, and Hungarian poets.

For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (Cambridge, Mass., 1971), which includes a list of additional sources.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Alice Stone Blackwell series consists of articles about ASB, correspondence, writings of ASB, photographs of ASB and of Catherine Breshkovsky (whose biography ASB wrote), and miscellaneous materials. Topics covered include the history of suffrage organizations, ASB's political views, the translation of Spanish poetry, Lucy Stone, and the ASB Fund. The collection reflects the range of ASB's interests; there is no long run of material about any one subject.

There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see Blackwell family Papers, 1784-1944 (A-77), Blackwell family Papers, 1835-1960 (A-145), and Blackwell family Papers, 1832-1981 (MC 411).

INVENTORY

• 17. Three photographs of ASB, 1915 (same as WRC-P4), ca.1930, n.d.; two of Catherine Breshkovsky, 1904, n.d. Includes copy prints of framed portraits of ASB, WRC-P28-2, WRC-P32-2.
  FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.

• 18. Correspondence (originals and copies), 1886, 1909-1943 (scattered)

• 19-19a: Writings of ASB, including poetry translations; includes pamphlets, fliers, clippings, tss.
  • 19. 1885-1929 (scattered)
  • 19a. 1930-1946, n.d.

• 20-20af+. About ASB: articles, tributes (by Samuel A. Eliot, William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Maud Wood Park, et al.)
  • 20. 1913, 1926, 1930-1950, n.d.
  • 20af+. 1932, 1936, 1942

• 21. Miscellaneous: fundraising letters for ASB Fund, memorabilia, etc., ca.1893, [1915]-1950 (scattered), n.d.

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