Lucy Stone
publication date: Friday, January 27, 2006 (part of Round XXVII)
category: Activism
clue: You'll be wrong if you guess Lucy Blackwell.
explanation: Stone was a suffragist who famously refused to take her husband's last name of Blackwell, and has since become synonymous with the act of keeping one's maiden name. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Denise Sawicki, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, Aaron Shurtleff, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Aaron Fischer, Chris McKinnon, Mihai Rusu, Bob Miller, Jacque Miller, and John Julitz
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