November 20, 1917: No word from, or about, the suffragists being held in Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse and D.C.’s District Jail today—but plenty of action by both the National Woman’s Party and the New York State Woman Suffrage Party.
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Rogers opened the conversation by asking Representative Carew to help pressure the President into putting a call for passage of the Anthony Amendment into his next message to Congress, and also to insist on better conditions in the Workhouse where his newly-enfranchised constituent is serving her sentence.
That win at the polls exactly two weeks ago today was celebrated earlier this evening at the Metropolitan Opera House, where “Victory Night” ended the first day’s session of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party’s convention at the Ritz-Carlton in New York City. The issue of the “Silent Sentinel” White House pickets was brought up at the convention today, but unfortunately it was in the form of a proposed resolution condemning the National Woman’s Party’s picketing of President Wilson. But another resolution introduced suggests that the delegates are considering their own form of militance.
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