One Girl's Voice

How Lucy Stone Helped Change the Law of the Land

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  • Suffragist
  • and
  • abolitionist
  • Lucy
  • Stone,
  • a
  • pioneer
  • in
  • the
  • 19th
  • century’s
  • two
  • greatest
  • movements
  • for
  • equality,
  • finds
  • her
  • voice
  • in
  • this
  • STEAM
  • picture
  • book
  • for
  • budding
  • activists.Lucy
  • Stone
  • grew
  • up
  • in
  • a
  • world
  • where
  • men’s
  • voices
  • rang
  • out,
  • but
  • women
  • swallowed
  • their
  • words.
  • When
  • her
  • church’s
  • minister
  • railed
  • against
  • women
  • speaking
  • in
  • public,
  • Lucy
  • made
  • up
  • her
  • mind
  • that
  • when
  • she
  • grew
  • up,
  • “if
  • she
  • had
  • anything
  • to
  • say,
  • she
  • would
  • say
  • it!”Forced
  • to
  • learn
  • to
  • debate
  • and
  • give
  • speeches
  • in
  • secret,
  • Lucy
  • used
  • her
  • voice
  • to
  • pave
  • the
  • way
  • for
  • others,
  • becoming
  • one
  • of
  • the
  • 19th
  • century’s
  • great
  • advocates
  • for
  • women’s
  • rights
  • and
  • the
  • abolition
  • of
  • slavery.In
  • this
  • engaging
  • nonfiction
  • book,
  • Vivian
  • Kirkfield’s
  • passionate
  • text
  • and
  • Rebecca
  • Gibbon’s
  • playful
  • illustrations
  • combine
  • to
  • encourage
  • readers
  • to
  • find
  • their
  • own
  • voices
  • to
  • speak
  • up
  • for
  • what
  • they
  • believe in.
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