Ever wonder how the women's suffrage movement played out at the local level in Fairfax County? Learn all about it with Alice Reagan, former NVCC history professor and author of Lorton Prisons (2023) with Kenena Spalding. Reagan also serves as a docent and consultant at the Lucy Burns Museum, which she helped to found.

The Lucy Burns Museum has a strong link to the suffragists' protests in Washington, DC. The museum is located in the former Lorton correctional facility, where suffragists who picketed the White House in 1917 were imprisoned and forcibly fed during their hunger strikes. In addition to the museum's presentation of its 91-year history, the Lucy Burns Museum houses exhibits on those women protesting for their right to vote. Learn more about those picketing the White House (called the "Silent Sentinels") and the prison's Night of Terror in this article by Visit Fairfax.