National Woman's Party
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The National Woman's Party was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to
Portrait of Alice Paul, 1915
Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman Congressional Union, 1913
Mabel Vernon
Judge Mary Bartelme, NWP vice chair, 1916-1917
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
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…White House. The National Woman's Party was an outgrowth of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which had been formed in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to fight for women's suffrage. The National Woman's Party broke from the much larger National American Woman Suffrage Association, which had focused…
Burns in 1913
Suffragette being force fed in prison
Lucy Burns working with the Congressional Union
Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington, D.C.