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Why Alice & Lucy threatened NAWSA
Alice Paul & Lucy Burns didn’t rebel against the mainstream suffrage organization. It kicked them out. Natl Am. Woman Suffrage Assoc was an organization of white moderates. Religiously conservative, politically mainstream, proudly respectable.…
Tags: Alice Paul, Direct Action, Emmeline Pankhurst, Lucy Burns, NAWSA, suffragettes, UK
Taking over the Senate
Passage of the 16th & 17th Amdts in 1913 - especially the 17th, which expanded voting rights over opposition from the deep south - proved a federal amendment strategy was viable. So Alice Paul & Lucy Burns spent a hot July plotting to force…
Tags: 1913, Alice Paul, Direct Action, Lucy Burns
A genius for publicity
Had the 1913 march gone flawlessly it would have been less of a success. Alice Paul immediately realized that the violent disruption and police indifference were a gift. On Inauguration Day, suffrage dominated the headlines. 🧵 “WILSON TAKES…
Tags: 1913, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Parades, Woodrow Wilson
The Original Women's March
The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession really was the original Women’s March. It called women from around the country to Washington, DC for Inauguration Day. They were there to send a message to the newly elected President, who won his office with a…
Tags: 1913, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Parades
Medals & motivation
Sustaining protest campaigns for months & years is so hard. The UK suffragettes created tangible artifacts to honor their members’ sacrifices and motivate them to keep going. 🎖ï¸thread. Women who had served time in prison were awarded a…
Tags: Alice Paul, Direct Action, Lucy Burns, UK
Alice Paul's first arrest
Alice Paul was first arrested in London. On June 29, 1907 she joined the Pankhursts storming the House of Commons, frustrated the Prime Minister ignored their demand for action. In the slammer she met Lucy Burns, whose red hair and American flag pin…
Tags: 1907, Alice Paul, Direct Action, Lucy Burns, UK
Inauguration Day
We used to inaugurate the U.S. president in March, not January. 107 years ago today, thousands of women massed on Washington to protest the presidential inauguration and demand equal rights. These women 👇hiked from NYC. Thread. Alice Paul &…
Tags: 1913, Alice Paul, Direct Action, Lucy Burns
Meet Lucy Burns
Lucy Burns. She and Alice Paul were the Stanton & Anthony of the 3d generation. They met in jail in the UK learning from the Pankhursts & bonded over the slugishness of the movement at home. Together they picketed the White House, then jail, hunger…
Tags: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, UK