Why was lucy stone so significant during the progressive era?
a.
she founded the weekly feminist newspaper the women's journal and lectured for the american anti-slavery society.
b.
she staged pickets outside the capitol and was jailed in service of the suffrage cause.
c.
she was the first president of the national american woman's suffrage association.
d.
she was an african american journalist who wrote about racism and the separate-but-equal doctrine.

The best answer is A. She founded the weekly feminist newspaper The Women's Journal and lectured for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

While Lucy Stone played an important role for the suffrage’s cause and abolitionist movement it is known that the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was the result of the union of the National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association, but Lucy was not the first president of it, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first president of the NAWSA.

Lucy Stone was very talented in writing and public speech and was very significant during the Progressive Era for the weekly feminist newspaper The Women's Journal and her lectures for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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