Lucy Stanton left a legacy behind for being the first African American woman to graduate with a 4-year degree. Lastly, I believe that her accomplishments made a legacy because of what she did like become the first black woman to graduate with a 4-year college degree also she was the first black woman to publish a short fictional story. Lucky managed to accomplish all of these thing and inspired other black women to follow in her footsteps. Also Lucy got married and had a child and he wanted a divorce but that didn't stop her from achieving her goals, she moved back to her home town Cleveland, Ohio and found a job to support her. Committed to aiding freedmen Stanton was sent by the Cleveland Freedmen's Association in 1866 to teach in Georgia. During the 1870s she taught in Mississippi where she met and, in 1878, married Levi Sessions. Then Stanton moved to Tennessee and, in the 1880s and 1890s, was an officer in the Women's Relief Corps, a grand matron of the Order of Eastern Star, and president of a local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Stanton belonged to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and died in Los Angeles, CA. That's why I think that Lucy Stanton left a legacy behind her.