Julia Emory

Julia Ridgely Emory (May 4, 1885 – February 1, 1979) was an American suffragist from Maryland, who led protests in Washington, D.C., for women's right to vote.

[1][5][6] She began attending protests at the White House and Congress in Washington, D.C., alongside such activists as Doris Stevens, Lucy Burns, and Alice Paul, with whom she became particularly close.

[1] While small in stature, Emory was a fierce activist, described as "active, insistent, and persistent in inverse ratio to [her] size" by her contemporary Inez Haynes Irwin.

[1][5][6] After conducting a hunger strike at the workhouse during her detention in November 1917, holding her hands aloft overnight in solidarity with the chained Lucy Burns on the "Night of Terror" there, she became an organizer for the National Woman's Party.

[1][2][7][8][9] In that capacity, she helped launch the "watchfires of freedom" campaign, in which activists burned copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches outside the White House.