November 21, 1917: Today in FeministHistory
Lucy Burns and Dora Lewis, leaders of the hunger strike at Occoquan Workhouse, were transferred out yesterday and sent to join Alice Paul and Rose Winslow in the hospital ward of Washington, D.C.’s District Jail, where Alice and Rose are in their fourteenth day of force-feedings. Kate Heffelfinger has also joined the ranks of those singled out for this form of legalized torture.Fearing their death in Occoquan, Superintendent Whittaker last night moved Mrs.
On other fronts in the battle for suffrage, the New York State Woman Suffrage Party met for the second day of its convention. The first order of business was to clear up a misunderstanding in regard to one proposal that caused a great deal of controversy and generated much publicity yesterday.
“The resolution, as passed, did not contain any such clause, although as presented it did,” Vera Boarman Whitehouse, the organization’s president, said. “The error was with our press department and the Party does not wish to go on record before the public as determined to carry on any such campaign.”
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Today in Feminist History: In the Midst of Suffrage Celebrations, Activists Demand Justice for Those Jailed in D.C.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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