Lucy Burns As a women's rights activist in the early 1900s, Burns organized political marches and rallies to pressure male lawmakers into passing a Constitutional amendment allowing women to vote. In 1913, she helped organize a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/155">suffrage march</a> on Pennsylvania Avenue the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. Burns and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/79">Alice Paul</a> formed the National Women's Party in 1917 and continued to fight for women's right to vote. Burns was arrested with other members of the Party after picketing the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a> in 1917. While in prison, she went on a hunger strike with Alice Paul to show their commitment to their cause. They won the fight in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Lucy+Burns">Lucy Burns</a> Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000011/">View original photograph</a>. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1890-1919">1890-1919</a>