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Workhouse Arts Center Celebrates Women’s Suffrage Month

The Workhouse Arts Center is holding special Thursday evening Drive-In movies, a Girl Scout Gold Award Project virtual event, and a suffrage-related art exhibit. All these events are planned for the month of August. The museum presents the story of the imprisonment of the 72 Suffragists at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in 2020. Continue reading

Lucy Burns Museum To Open At Workhouse Arts Center

The new Lucy Burns Museum is opening at the Workhouse Arts Center on Saturday, Jan. 25. The historic logbook at the museum reads that a majority of the 72 Suffragists at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 were officially jailed for “obstructing sidewalks". This minor offense was enforced though, and it led to a turning point in the Women’s suffrage movement to secure voting rights for all women in the United States. Continue reading