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Women's Suffrage Museum Events & Cultural Center

Mission statement for Suffrage Coalition Inc.’s Project: Women’s Suffrage Museum – Events & Culture Center - Locate and preserve the epic history of the movement that brought democracy to the other half of our citizens. Use accurate, immersive storytelling to inspire future generations to value their rights and faithfully perform their duties as citizens.

Lucy Burns (1879-1966) NY

Lucy Burns
  • Met Alice Paul in a London police station after both were arrested protesting for suffrage in front of Parliament. The pair returned to the U.S. in 1913 and founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.
  • Was a “Silent Sentinel” who picketed in front of the White House from 1917 to mid 1919.
  • Spent more time in prison than any other American woman suffragist.
  • Was held in solitary confinement, force-fed, and during the “night of terror” the jail’s superintendent ordered her beaten. She was angel cuffed with her hands above her head forcing her to stand all night.
  • She was imprisoned six times.

Quotes:

"We have done all this for women, and we have sacrificed everything we possessed for them, and now let them fight for it."

 

“I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned".

 

"It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.”