Alice Stone Blackwell

Alice Blackwell ( born 14 September 1857 in East Orange, New Jersey, † March 15, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American journalist, feminist and human rights activist.

Life

Alice Blackwell was the only daughter of the abolitionist Henry Browne Blackwell (1825-1909) and his wife Lucy Stone (1818-1893), the social reformer and journalist; and the first American wife kept the her birth name. Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, the first American doctors, Blackwells were aunts.

Alice Blackwell studied at Boston University and received her degree in 1881. She then worked as a newspaper correspondent for the " Woman's Journal," the most important newspaper of the American women's movement. After her mother's death, she took over the management of the newspaper as editor in chief and was up to her death, the editor of the newspaper. Alice Blackwell was also active in the women's organization " American Woman 's Suffrage Association " ( AWSA ).

Alice Blackwell died unmarried in their house to a heart attack and was buried in the cemetery Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory.

Alice Blackwell, between 1880/1900