The Lucy Burns Museum- Part Two

Things began to heat up in the 

Suffrage Movement in the United States in 1917.

On Labor Day, eleven suffragists 

were arrested for picketing a war draftee parade. 

Alie Paul, Rose Winslow and Kate Heffelfinger

 were imprisoned in the DC jail. They escalated their protest

 by going on a hunger strike and refusing to do prison work.

Force feedings followed.

Alice Paul was thrown into the "psychopathic ward."

For weeks Paul endured isolation, 

constant monitoring and purposeful sleep deprivation- 

all while on a hunger strike.

Outraged, Lucy Burns and 31 other suffragists protested Paul's treatment.  They were arrested and sent to prison in Occoquan on November 14. They soon endured their own "Night of Terror."

The Lucy Burns Museum is Free to visit. 

($5 fee if you want to see the

 preserved jail cells from Lorton Prison)
Open Saturdays- Noon to Five.

 A trip here will make certain 

that you tell others the story 

and Always, Always VOTE!

PS-It wasn't until February 21, 1952

 that Virginia finally showed its support
 for women's suffrage by officially 
ratifying the 19th Amendment. 
African American women and men’s voting rights
 would not be incorporated into the country’s law 
until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Mississippi did not ratify the 
19th Amendment until 1984.