woman's suffrage movement

Lucy Burns was an American suffragist and a woman’s rights supporter.  She was very dedicated to the woman’s suffragist in America and United Kingdom. Burns put so much of her hard work so woman could have their rights.  Along with her partner Alice Paul they fought for the Woman’s suffragist.

Lucy Burns was born on July 28, 1879 in Brooklyn, New York; she died on December 22, 1966.  She had beautiful red hair; she had 7 brothers and sisters and came from an Irish catholic family.  Her father Ednort Burns was always in favor of educating both boys and girls.  She first attended Packer Collegiate Institute also known as Brooklyn Female Academy Preparatory in 1890.  Ms. Burns graduated from Vassar College and attended Yale graduate school, and becoming an English teacher.  In 1906 she went to Germany to study language and to continue teaching in Brooklyn public schools.   Three years later she went to England to study at Oxford University she then became interests in militant activism for the woman’s suffragist movement.

Lucy Burns became interested on the woman’s suffragist movement while she was in England.  Burns had so much dedication on the woman’s suffragist, that she was giving an award for Pankhurst‘s Woman’s Social and Political union for activities in numerous of protests, being imprisoned and her contribution to the movement.  She was arrested six times in the U.S and spent more time in prison then any other suffragist.  In England Lucy Burns meet Alice Paul, they both returned to the United States to fight for woman’s rights to vote in America.  In 1920 the woman began their battle by organizing a protest and speaking out to the press for woman’s to vote.  In 1913 they formed a congressional union for woman’s suffrages, also a 5,000 woman march in Washington on the inaugural day of President Woodrow Wilson which is saying they did the protest a day before the president came.  Later on 1915 woman formed their group the National Woman’s Part and continued the fight for vote.  Burns spent in courthouses and jails during her career, but after picketing the Whitehouse in 1917 her party members including Alice Paul were sent to jail at Occoquan Workhouse.  Paul and one of the part members organized a 19 day hunger strike, they were both beaten and forced to be feed.

After the passage of the 19^th amendment was passed, Lucy Burns retired from the woman’s congressional association and moved to New York and raise her niece.       In January 1917 began picketing the Whitehouse and are more or less ignored.  In April The U.S enters World War 1.  Paul and others continue picketing and demanding the vote for woman.  After a long time fighting for suffragist, they win in the senate and it had to pass to the state.   The suffrage had two more of the of the two-third votes.

Thanks to Lucy Burns eventually the 19^th amendment passes giving all the woman’s rights to vote.  Woman’s suffragist worked really hard and had a horrible life trying to have the woman’s rights to vote.  Woman’s suffragist went through so much but they never gave up on their dreams and goals.