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Documents On
The Struggle
For Woman Suffrage
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Lucy Stone
Antoinette Blackwell
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1) "Women Suffrage in New Jersey." An
address delivered by Lucy Stone, at a hearing before the New Jersey
Legislature, March 6th, 1867 Lucy Stone 2) Portia Gage Tries to Vote in Vineland. A description by an early suffragist of her attempt to vote in a municipal election, March 12,1868. Portia Gage 3) Petition to the New Jersey Legislature from Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, on woman suffrage and property rights, March 24, 1868 LS & ABB 4) Report of the Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey Assembly, April 9, 1868. This report denies the Stone and Blackwell petition for woman suffrage and property rights. NJ Assembly Lucy Stone ( 1818-1893 ) addressed the New Jersey Legislature on the issue of universal suffrage in March 1867, at a time when the New Jersey Legislature was debating extending voting rights to African American men. The U.S. Congress was debating the Fourteenth Amendment, which for the first time introduced the word "male" into the Constitution in connection with voting rights. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921) was a woman of 43 when she first petitioned the New Jersey Legislature for woman suffrage in March 1868. This portrait of Blackwell as an older woman reminds us that Blackwell was one of the very few early suffragists to live long enough to be able to vote. She did so in the presidential election of 1920
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