Papers of Lucia True Ames Mead in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1870-1921
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Lucia True (Ames) Mead, 1856-1936
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Lucia True (Ames) Mead, pacifist and suffragist, was born Lucy Jane Ames in Boscawen, New Hampshire, in 1856. After a childhood in Chicago, she moved to Boston at the age of 14. In 1898 she married Edwin Doak Mead, editor of New England Magazine, pacifist, and advocate of woman's rights. LAM devoted much of her life to social reform. She served as president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association (1903-1909) and supported many other organizations, including the W...
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
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In 1870, within a year of forming the American Woman Suffrage Association, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and others founded the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. MWSA was affiliated with AWSA and shared both its goals and activities. The merger, in 1890, of AWSA with the National Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), prompted Alice Stone Blackwell and Ellen Batelle Dietrick to write a new constitution in April 1892. T...
