Lucy Gwynne Branham papers, 1892-2004 (bulk 1917-1966).

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Lucy Gwynne Branham papers, 1892-2004 (bulk 1917-1966).

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Correspondence, résumé, job application for the War Department, poetry, family history, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating chiefly to Branham's work as a social activist and suffragist. Subjects include the National Woman's Party; the 1917 picket of the White House resulting in jail time for Branham, Alice Paul, and others; and in 1919, Branham's burning of a letter from President Woodrow Wilson in Lafayette Square protesting the lack of voting rights for women. Includes material concerning her mother and suffragist, Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham.

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