In 1995, the Massachusetts legislature established a Senate Select Committee to choose "a woman, who through her actions, has made a major contribution … or who … has represented a group of women who made such a contribution." After consulting with experts, the committee recommended that, rather than one woman, six individuals be recognized: Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), advocate for the mentally ill, Superintendent of Women Nurses for the Union Army Lucy Stone (1818-1893), abolitionist, suffrage leader, publisher and editor of the Woman's Journal Sarah Parker Remond (1824-1894), African-American abolitionist who took the anti-slavery crusade to Great Britain, physician Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924), suffragist, leader in national women's club movement, founder and editor of the Woman's Era newspaper, civil rights activist Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (1864-1943), trade unionist, settlement house worker, campaigner for the rights of women workers, factory inspector, pacifist Florence Luscomb (l887-1985), suffragist, labor organizer, candidate for public office, advocate for civil liberties, racial equality, and world peace