July 28, 1879-1966
Brooklyn, New York
“To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.”
“The idea of equal rights was in the air.”
“It is unthinkable that a national government, which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.”
Suffrage leader Lucy Burns was imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. She and others were arrested for picketing the White House in support of a federal amendment granting women the right to vote. Lucy was imprisoned six times because of her work for women. She worked tirelessly with Alice Paul and co-founded the National Woman’s Party. Her first exposure to activism was with Emmeline Pankhurst in England.