Lorton Workhouse Arts Center Exhibition : Women Suffragists at the Occoquan Workhouse (March 1-31)

In honor of Women's History Month, the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton presents a one month exhibition highlighting the women of the 1900s who fought for a woman's right to vote. The Women's Division of what was formerly known as the Occoquan Workhouse once held approximately 168 women, most from the National Women's Party. They were incarcerated for picketing in front of the White House for the women's voting rights. Lucy Burns, who, along with Alice Paul, founded the National Women's Party, was one of the women incarcerated in the women's workhouse. On view in this exhibition will be original documentation depicting the arrest and imprisonment of women suffragists, photographs, period costumes, and original suffragist poster artwork by students of Northern Virginia Community, Woodbridge Campus. For more information go to Lortonarts.org.

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