S02 E20 DC & Virginia: Jailed For Freedom

In this episode, we talk about the final years leading up to the 19th Amendment passage in Washington D.C. and northern Virginia. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were leaders of the militant wing of the suffrage fight in the U.S. and officially founded the National Woman’s Party in 1916.Inez Milholland was a suffragist and attorney who in 1916 campaigned in the western states with equal suffrage to ask women voters to support the disenfranchised women in the East. She collapsed during a speech in C...