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Lucy Burns
American suffragist
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- Died:
- December 22, 1966, Brooklyn (aged 87)
Lucy Burns (born July 28, 1879, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—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, she did graduate work in linguistics, first at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and then—after a hiatus during which she taught English at Erasmus ...(100 of 373 words)