Editing Lucy Stone (section)

=== New England Woman Suffrage Association ===

At her new home, Stone worked closely with the [[New England Woman Suffrage Association]] (NEWSA), the first major political organization in the U.S., with women's suffrage as its goal. Two years earlier, she had traveled to Boston to participate in its founding convention and had been elected to its executive committee.<ref>DuBois, Ellen Carol (1978), ''Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848–1869'', [https://archive.org/details/feminismsuffrage00dubo_0/page/165 pp. 165, 168]. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. {{ISBN|0-8014-8641-6}}</ref> In 1877, she became its president and served in that position, until her death in 1893.<ref>Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (1902). ''[[History of Woman Suffrage]]'', Vol. 4, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofwomansu04stanuoft#page/720/mode/2up p. 720]. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hollenbeck Press.</ref>