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Burn's great-grandnephew, Tyler L. Boyd, wrote a comprehensive biography of Burn, called Tennessee Statesman Harry T. Burn: Woman suffrage, free elections, and a life of service, and published in 2019. [3] Burn is portrayed in the 2022 musical Suffs, with the letter he received from his mother being portrayed in a number.
English: Seven page letter from Febb Ensminger Burn of Niota, Tennessee (Mrs. James L. Burn) to her son Harry T. Burn, urging him to vote for ratification. He credits the influence of his mother for changing his vote to support female suffrage. His vote broke the tie in the Tennessee legislature, causing Tennessee to pass the amendment.
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878. However, a suffrage ...
Dr. Blanche Moore Haines (1865–1944), physician; Michigan State chair of the National Woman Suffrage Association. [69] Ida Husted Harper (1851–1931) – organizer, major writer and historian of the US suffrage movement. [70] Florence Jaffray Harriman (1870–1967) – social reformer, organizer and diplomat. [71]
The film focuses on the American women's suffrage movement during the 1910s and follows women's suffrage leaders Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as they use peaceful and effective nonviolent strategies, tactics, and dialogues to revolutionize the American feminist movement to grant women the right to vote. The film was released in the United States ...
Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that gave some women the right to vote.
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. [1] She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party. [2]