In partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all.
Today: Antoinette Brown Blackwell of Somerville, who founded the New Jersey Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869 with her sister-in-law, Lucy Stone. Blackwell was also the first ordained woman minister in the United States.
