Lucy Burns was a Vassar alumna whose postgraduate credentials included Yale, the University of Berlin, the University of Bonn, and Oxford. She could debate presidents and congressmen or demand her rights from judges and jailers with equal ease. As Alice Paul’s partner for more than a decade beginning at NAWSA and culminating in the National Woman’s Party, she led peaceful protests against Wilson until the Anthony Amendment was finally approved by Congress in 1919.
Source photograph: X Taylor, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1913
Lucy Burns was a Vassar alumna whose postgraduate credentials included Yale, the University of Berlin, the University of Bonn, and Oxford. She could debate presidents and congressmen or demand her rights from judges and jailers with equal ease. As Alice Paul’s partner for more than a decade beginning at NAWSA and culminating in the National Woman’s Party, she led peaceful protests against Wilson until the Anthony Amendment was finally approved by Congress in 1919.
Source photograph: X Taylor, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1913