Lucy Burns
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Lucy Burns was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. Burns was a close fr
Burns in 1913
Suffragette being force fed in prison
Lucy Burns working with the Congressional Union
Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington, D.C.
Alice Paul
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Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment t
Lucy Burns
…advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party. Burns was born in New York to an Irish Catholic family. She was described by fellow…
Paul in 1918
Paul in 1915
Inez Milholland leading the Woman Suffrage Procession on horseback in 1913
Cover to the program for the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession, which Paul organized