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Lucy Burns was a suffragette and women's rights advocate who was tremendously important to the history of women rights in America. In her lifetime women and men were not treated equal, women often stayed at home and did not have much say in their lives. Inspired by her father, Ms. Burns joined the Women's Social and Political Union and worked on its behalf for justice. However, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns disagreed with the Women's Social and Political Union, and together with Alice Paul, Burns created the National Women’s Party in order to take more actions. Her work ultimately led to the passage of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote.
Lucy Burns was Born in Brooklyn, New York on July 28, 1879, into a family that believed in educating children of both sexes. During Burns’s time, most …show more content…

Any money a woman had become the property of her husband once she was married. After a divorce, everything that women had would be taken away from her including her children. That on one of the reasons that many women did not want to marry. Burns not like other women was a brilliant scholar at Vassar and at the University of Berlin and taught English for two years at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn. She did then graduate work at Yale University, the University of Bonn and Berlin, and Oxford.
Lucy Burns’s father believed that women and men should have the same education and that might have inspired her to fight for equality between the two sexes, and she was inspired by the Women's Social and Political Union, an organization dedicated to fighting for women’s rights in the United Kingdom, she was actively involved in the fighting for women's rights especially the right to vote. She left everything in order to work with the Women's Social and Political Union, even dropping her graduate studies in 1909. She met Paul at a London police station when both women had been arrested for demonstrating and came together to fight together since then. Lucy Burns and Alice

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