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Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Chauncy Hall, 585 Boylston Street  Chauncy
Hall in 1913 was a "busy bee hive full of workers for women,"
according to the Boston American in 1913. It had housed the Massachu-setts
Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal since 1909 when they
moved from 5 Park Street (see D6). In the last years of the suffrage campaign,
the MWSA shared the building with the College Equal Suffrage Association,
the Massachusetts Men's League for Woman Suffrage, the Boston Equal Suffrage
Association for Good Government, and the New England Woman Suffrage Association.
Women opponents to suffrage were not far. The Massachusetts Association
Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women had its office two
blocks west, at the corner of Boylston and Exeter Streets. The group worked
closely with the men's Massachusetts Anti-Suffragist Committee.Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), daughter of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, edited the Woman's Journal for 35 years after her graduation from Boston University in 1881. She served as president of the MWSA from 1910 until women achieved suffrage in 1920. In addition to helping start the League of Women Voters, successor to the MWSA, Blackwell was active in many other causes including relief for Armenian refugees, the Women's Trade Union League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the American Peace Society. As a young valedictorian, she had predicted her life of dissent, saying, "It's perhaps the first, but I don't mean it to be the last, old fence I shall break through." |
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BB7:
Boston Marathon Finish Line Tortoise and Hare Sculpture Copley Square  In
celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon in 1996, Nancy
Schön, a former marathon runner, created the sculpture, The Hare
and the Tortoise, at the finish line. Her Make Way for Ducklings statue
is located in the Public Garden. Women were not allowed to enter the marathon
as official runners until 1972 when Nina Kuscsik became the first female
to be crowned with the laurel wreath. The first unofficial woman winner
was Roberta Gibb in 1966. Joan Benoit Samuelson, who in 1984 was awarded
the gold medal in the first women's Olympic marathon, won the Boston Marathon
in 1979 and 1983. Other women Olympic gold medal winners who also placed
first in the Boston Marathon were Fatama Robba, Boston winner in 1997
and 1998, and Rosa Mota, Boston winner in 1987, 1988, and 1990. |
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