House. In 1912, she walked in the suffrage hike from New York City to Albany. She was arrested after militant demonstrations in June 1917, August 1917 and August 1918. In the June 30, 1917 issue of The Suffragist, Dock wrote an article that ended "The young are at the gates!" which became a rallying cry on banners during picketing at the White House. She participated in protest movements for women's rights that resulted in the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. Her public health and gender equality work intersected in her support for the treatment of venereal disease (which she discussed in her book Hygiene and Morality) and her emphasis on widespread access to information about birth control in her speech at the New York Academy of Medicine. Also linked with her promotion of gender equality, Dock urged for nursing to be declared a profession to establish nursing authority in the medical field in her speech at the World's Columbian Exposition at the World's Fair in Chicago and worked to do so through her formation of the Nurses Associated Alumnae and the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools. Dock further campaigned for legislation to allow nurses rather than physicians to control their profession. Later life She retired to the family farm in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania in 1922 with her four single sisters. Dock became deaf in her later years. She died from bronchopneumonia on April 17, 1956, after suffering a broken hip in a fall. Legacy The American Association for the History of Nursing has named an award in honor of Dock. The Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing recognizes outstanding writing and research in a book by an experienced scholar of nursing history. In 1976, Dock was inducted into the American Nurses Association's Hall of Fame. Bibliography References External links American Nurse Association 1858 births 1956 deaths American medical writers Women medical writers American suffragists American nursing administrators Nursing educators American women non-fiction writers Burials in Pennsylvania