1. Ruza Wenclawska, more widely known as Rose Winslow and later as Rose Lyons by marriage, was a Polish-American suffragist, factory inspector and trade union organizer.
16 Facts About Ruza Wenclawska
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Ruza Wenclawska was a dedicated member of the National Woman's Party.
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Ruza Wenclawska's father was a miner and her brother a slate picker.
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Ruza Wenclawska worked as a factory inspector and a trade union organizer in New York City with the National Consumers' League and the National Women's Trade Union League.
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Ruza Wenclawska worked with the Woman's Political Union by 1913 before joining the National Woman's Party.
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Ruza Wenclawska became an excellent public speaker during her years of union activism and would travel across the country speaking to suffrage rallies, often with National Woman's Party founder Alice Paul.
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Ruza Wenclawska did similar work with other organizers in Wyoming during the electoral campaigns of 1916.
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In September and October of 1916, Ruza Wenclawska went out west as a speaker for the National Woman's Party to lobby for the federal woman suffrage amendment and oppose Democratic candidates.
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Ruza Wenclawska got very ill during those speaking engagements, and had to make only one speech per day, and rest a lot.
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On October 15,1917, Ruza Wenclawska was arrested, sentenced to seven months in jail, and was sent to the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia.
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Ruza Wenclawska, herself, was placed in solitary confinement for at least five weeks.
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Ruza Wenclawska listed herself as an actress and performed in several plays in New York City, including a part in Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, on Broadway in 1924.
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Ruza Wenclawska is listed in the New York State Death Index as having died on April 16,1934, in Islip, NY.
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Doris Stevens published excerpts of Ruza Wenclawska's smuggled diary scraps from her time spent in the Occoquan Workhouse in Jailed for Freedom, a history of militant suffragists in the United States between 1913 and 1919.
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Ruza Wenclawska was portrayed by Vera Farmiga in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels.
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The film indicates that Ruza Wenclawska was inspired to join the suffrage movement after Alice Paul pointed out that a woman with the right to vote is a woman able to voice her opinions, such as the need for a safer working environment.