Dorchester Historical Society, 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA 02125
Sunday, October 14, 2018, 2 pm at the William Clapp House
Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Barbara Berenson has written about the active role that Massachusetts women played in the national struggle for women’s rights. Before the Civil War, Lucy Stone and others opposed women’s exclusion from political life. They organized the first National Woman’s Rights Convention, held in Worcester. After the war state activists founded the Boston-based American Women Suffrage Association and Woman’s Journal. Their activities laid the foundation for the next generation of suffragists to triumph over tradition.