Lucy Burns Goes to Jail
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AIGA Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote
Submitted By: Gigi McGee
AIGA Chapter: Philadelphia
Artist Statement: The fight for suffrage served as the inception for the long history of protest outside the White House in Lafayette Square. Lucy Burns was a driving force behind the picketing of President Woodrow Wilson’s administration, beginning in January 1917. Six months later, she and Dora Lewis–targeting the attention of visiting Russian envoys–attracted controversy by prominently displaying a banner outside the White House declaring that America was not a free democracy as long as women were denied the vote. She was arrested for obstructing traffic.
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