The Lucy Burns Museum- Part One

The Seneca Falls Convention   
     

 Sharing some of the early history of women's suffrage 

in the United States.  

Stopped by the Lucy Burns Museum today 

at the Lorton Workhouse in Occoquan, Virginia.
(photos taken at the museum unless noted)

 Well-known names joined together 

in the late 1800's

for the fight for Votes for Women.

Susan B. Anthony 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucy Stone

 Things seems stalled out until a new group

 of very determined women took the helm.

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns participated 

in the Suffrage movement in England,

 and then came back home to the United States

 to take up the cause here.

They planned and organized a march

 in Washington D.C.

 Inez Milholland, one of the leaders of the movement
 on the white horse

 that led the parade.

The parade was slammed 

with violence against the women.

But, the coverage of the parade stunned America, 
and they woke up to the cause of suffrage.

                                                                                    C. Denninger photo
This is a reenactment of the "white horse ride" 

at the groundbreaking ceremony 

for the Suffragist Memorial in 2010.

The Suffrage movement was plagued 

with the challenge of racism

 as the fight for suffrage was for white women only.

Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell 

were two of the leaders that moved 

to bring suffrage to black women. 

This right was not fully secured until

 the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

A great read to share with children.
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