PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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Susan B. Anthony
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Mary Lyon
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Lucretia Mott
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Lyon (1797-1849) was the founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and a pioneer in women’s education.
Detailed explanation-2: -Graduates of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary carried Mary Lyon’s ideals and teaching methods to schools throught the United States and the world. Mount Holyoke provided the inspiration, the model and often the leadership, for the many women’s colleges that followed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Lyon was a pioneering educator of women. In 1837 she founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which Emily Dickinson attended in 1847-48. Lyon was born in Buckland, Massachusetts, on February 28, 1797.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Lyon founded the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now College) in 1837 at South Hadley, Massachusetts, the model for institutions of higher education for women in the United States.
Detailed explanation-5: -Mary Lyon, in full Mary Mason Lyon, (born Feb. 28, 1797, near Buckland, Mass., U.S.-died March 5, 1849, South Hadley, Mass.), American pioneer in the field of higher education for women and founder and first principal of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the forerunner of Mount Holyoke College.