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Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892 in Kempsville, Virginia - 1966) was an American suffragist associated with the National Women's Party. She earned degrees in history from Washington College in Maryland, Johns Hopkins University (Masters' degree), and Columbia University (PhD).〔 While teaching in Florida, she received a Carnegie Medal for saving Dema T. Nelson from drowning in the ocean in 1915.〔 In 1916 she was a National Women's Party organizer in Utah, and in September of the following year she was arrested for picketing the White House as part of the Silent Sentinels, a NWP campaign for women's suffrage, for which she served two months in the Occoquan Workhouse and the District jail. In 1918 Branham lobbied in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama for a federal amendment in the Senate that would legalize women's suffrage.〔 She traveled around America speaking of her experiences in prison as part of the NWP's “Prison Special” tour of 1919.〔 Also in 1919, Branham burned a letter from President Woodrow Wilson in Lafayette Square to protest for women's suffrage. After women's suffrage was obtained, she led the Inez Milholland Memorial Fund Committee, which created an ongoing endowment fund for the NWP.〔 She taught briefly at Columbia University, worked with the American Friends Service Committee, and became executive secretary of the American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia (1926–30).〔 She also worked with the World Woman’s Party in Geneva and lobbied the League of Nations on equal rights issues.〔 In the late 1950s she lived at Sewall-Belmont House and served on the NWP’s Congressional Committee to lobby for the Equal Rights Amendment. 〔 Branham also wrote ''An outline of the political history of Georgia, during the revolutionary war''. Branham's mother, Lucy Fisher Gwynne Branham, was also a suffragist, and was arrested for her part in the watch fire demonstrations in January 1919 and served three days in the District jail.〔〔 ==See also== *List of suffragists and suffragettes *List of women's rights activists *Timeline of women's suffrage *Women's suffrage organizations 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucy Gwynne Branham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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