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The Suffragettes and the Women's Workhouse at Occoquan

Please join us for a virtual talk with Alice Reagan, a founder and docent at the Lucy Burns Museum, to learn about the suffragettes incarcerated at the Women's Workhouse at Occoquan.

From July 1917 until November 1917, 72 members of the National Women's Party were incarcerated at the Women's Workhouse at Occoquan for picketing the White House.  Why were they picketing and what did they hope to achieve? How were they treated and how did this impact women's effort to win woman's suffrage?  Why did their imprisonment at Occoquan end? How did their activities impact President Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward woman's suffrage? 

A native of Deerfield in Upstate New York, Alice Reagan taught History at NVCC-Woodbridge for 32 years.  She serves as a docent and consultant at the Lucy Burns Museum at Lorton which she helped found. In 2022, she was named Professor Emerita, History. She is the co-author, with Kenena Spalding, of Lorton Prisons (2023).

Please register to attend this virtual event.

Contact mzimmerman@alexlibraryva.org for more information. 

_{Image: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. Mary Winsor Penn. '17 holding Suffrage Prisoners banner. United States Washington D.C, 1917. [Oct.-Nov] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000225/.}