Lucy Burns

Lucy Burns

Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Together with Alice Paul, Burns formed the National Woman's Party.

The Lucy Burns Foundation, which publishes Ballotpedia, was named in her honor.

Bibliography

• Becker, S.D. (1981). The origins of the Equal Rights Amendment: American feminism between the wars. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Bland, S.R. (1981). ‘Never Quite as Committed as We’d Like’: The Suffrage Militancy of Lucy Burns (Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 4–23). Journal of Long Island History, 1981.
• Clift, E. (2003). Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
• Lunardini, C.A. (1941). From equal suffrage to equal rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party, 1912-1928. New York, NY: New York University Press.