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January 15, 1917: Reinforcements—and more contributions—for the “Silent Sentinels” today!

January 12, 1917: Today was a very good—though quite frigid one—for the “Silent Sentinels” of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.

January 10, 1917: “Silent Sentinels” have begun picketing President Wilson at the White House!

November 24, 1917: Another day in court for some “Silent Sentinel” suffragists who have been imprisoned for picketing along the White House fence. However, unlike many previous occasions, they were not in a courtroom to face more charges, but to make their own accusations against Occoquan Workhouse authorities for the abuses they’ve suffered since being sent there 10 days ago.

November 23, 1917: Everyone in Judge Edmund Waddill’s packed courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, this morning was shocked by the weak and emaciated condition of the hunger-strikers among the suffrage prisoners brought out of Occoquan Workhouse for a hearing they had requested in U.S. District Court.

November 22, 1917: The Department of Justice will be investigating the atrocious conditions of the “Silent Sentinels” serving time in Occoquan Workhouse—and Superintendent Whittaker may be removed from his position for overseeing them.

November 13, 1917: Today saw yet another example of the outrageous treatment given to the peaceful suffragists picketing President Wilson.

November 12, 1917: After all they’ve gone through, it’s not easy to shock the suffragists who have been picketing President Wilson. But today they were caught by surprise.

November 8, 1917: The already outrageous treatment of peaceful suffragist pickets by the authorities became even more disgraceful today. Alice Paul, serving two sentences totaling seven months for picketing outside […]