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Silent No More: The new Lucy Burns Museum speaks to the centennial of suffrage

By Karin McKie

Suffragists are recorded as the first in US history to use silence as protest, calling themselves “Silent Sentinels.” US suffragists (rather than British suffragettes) were also the first to picket the White House. They stood in front of …

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