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What Is Lucy Burns's Role In Communism

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¨It is unthinkable that a national government which represents that woman should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.” said by Lucy Burns, because she believed that all women should be able to vote and have their opinion in the world. Lucy Burns impacted the citizens of the United States of America because of the National Woman's Party, joined Alice Paul on the Congressional Committee for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and edited the Suffragist. Lucy Burns was born on July 28, 1879 in Brooklyn, New York and was the fourth born of eight children. She graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in New York in 1982, and the next seven years of her life she worked on graduate studies in linguistics …show more content…

Lucy Burns served as the CU’s national vice-chairman, and later was an Executive Committee member of the National Woman’s Party. Lucy suggested the organization refuse to support Democratic candidates even those that are in suffrage and having an idea of holding responsible at a meeting in August, 1914. Lucy held many roles in the Congressional Union, and they were an organizer for the campaigns in the West in 1914 and 1916, as a legislative chairman in Washington, D.C., and as an editor of The Suffragist beginning in April 1914. Lucy edited The Suffragist, and organized the political campaigns, but spent time in jail for covering Washington D.C with suffragist messages with chalk to organize a demonstration against the president during World War 1, which was Woodrow Wilson. After she made up the nineteenth amendment (which is all women should and has the right to vote) on August 26, 1920, she moved back to Brooklyn to live with her two unmarried sisters. Lucy Burns died at 87 in 1966. “..Women should ignore the issue the right of all people to political freedom..” Lucy succeeded very well with the 3 impacts she made in the United States of America and inspired lots of people for what she did. She stood up for every women that didn’t have the right to have their own opinion in life and have the right to

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