for Lucretia Coffin Mott

Authors

Jan Norton, University of Iowa

Abstract

By all accounts, Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was an extraordinary person.¹ A Quaker and lay minister, a supporter of peace, the anti-slavery movement, the free religious movement, Indians, and women's rights, she worked most of her adult life on behalf of social reform and moral justice. She was often featured on public platforms that included the most important social activists and intellects of her day: William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, William Henry Channing. The force of her leadership reached so far into the 20th-century that when the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in Congress in 1923, it was known as the Lucretia Mott Amendment. Yet she left only a collection of letters and a diary of her trip to England to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840.

Journal Title

Iowa Journal of Communication

Volume

25

Issue

3

First Page

38

Last Page

40

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Norton, Jan (1993) "for Lucretia Coffin Mott," Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 25: No. 3, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol25/iss3/13

Copyright

©1993 Iowa Communication Association