Mary Ann White Johnson

Overview

Mary Ann White Johnson born Westmoreland, NH August 24, 1808 (d. 1872). Abolitionist; lecturer on physiology. Founding member of world's first nonviolence group, New England Non-Resistance Society, Boston, 1838. As matron at Sing Sing Prison, became advocate for prison reform.

Quotations

“We demand for women equal freedom with her brother to raise her voice and exert her influence directly for the removal of all evils that afflict the race.” (Pennsylvania Freeman, June 12, 1852, in Beverly Palmer, ed., Letters of Lucretia Mott, p. 121; photo Mass. Hist. Soc.)