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Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul

Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer)1917

National Women’s History Museum

National Women’s History Museum
Alexandria, VA, United States

Informal portrait, full-length, Lucy Branham, facing forward, standing in front of a building and holding a sign, "We Demand That The American Government Give Alice Paul A Political Offender, The Privileges Russia Gave Miyukoff."
Lucy G. Branham of Baltimore, Md., an organizer for the NWP, was a graduate of Washington College who earned graduate degrees at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. Branham was arrested picketing Sept. 1917 and sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Workhouse and District Jail. She was a speaker in the "Prison Special" tour of Feb-Mar 1919. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 355.

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  • Title: Lucy Branham protests the political imprisonment of Alice Paul
  • Creator: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (Photographer)
  • Date Created: 1917
  • Rights: Records of the National Woman's Party
  • External Link: Library of Congress
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