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The journey to women's voting rights and the Nineteenth Amendment
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Lucy Burns

American suffragist
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Lucy Burns (born July 28, 1879, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.ā€”died December 22, 1966, Brooklyn) was an American suffragist whose zealous political organizing and militant tactics helped forge support for a federal constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. Burns was the fourth of eight children. Fortunate to have a father who believed in educating children of both sexes, Burns in 1902 graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Over the next seven years,...

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