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Jailed for Freedom

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By Doris Stevens
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A detailed account of the organized militant campaign that pressured national lawmakers to enfranchise women, tracing strategy, protests, and outcomes. It profiles key leaders who combined ethical conviction with political calculation and describes mass political actions such as deputations to the executive, voter organization, and coordinated picketing. The narrative documents arrests, harsh treatment in jail, hunger strikes, and public spectacles including watchfires and effigies that amplified pressure on officials. It follows the tactical evolution from propaganda to direct political militancy and concludes with the congressional approval of the suffrage amendment after sustained public and legal confrontation.

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Title: Jailed for Freedom

Author: Doris Stevens

Release date: January 1, 2003 [eBook #3604]
Most recently updated: July 1, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Samuel R. Brown

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Jailed for Freedom

by Doris Stevens

Contents

Preface
Part I. Leadership
Chapter1. A Militant Pioneer—Susan B. Anthony
Chapter 2. A Militant General—Alice Paul
Part II. Political Action
Chapter 1. Women Invade the Capital
Chapter 2. Women Voters Organize
Chapter 3. The Last Deputation to President Wilson
Part III. Militancy
Chapter 1. Picketing a President
Chapter 2. The Suffrage War Policy
Chapter 3. The First Arrests
Chapter 4. Occoquan Workhouse
Chapter 5. August Riots
Chapter 6. Prison Episodes
Chapter 7. An Administration Protest—Dudley Field Malone Resigns
Chapter 8. The Administration Yields
Chapter 9. Political Prisoners
Chapter 10. The Hunger Strike—A Weapon
Chapter 11. Administration Terrorism
Chapter 12. Alice Paul in Prison
Chapter 13. Administration—Lawlessness Exposed
Chapter 14. The Administration Outwitted
Chapter 15. Political Results
Chapter 16. An Interlude (Seven Months)
Chapter 17. New Attacks on the President
Chapter 18. The President Appeals to the Senate Too Late
Chapter 19. More Pressure
Chapter 20. The President Sails Away
Chapter 21. Watchfires of Freedom
Chapter 22. Burned in Effigy
Chapter 23. Boston Militants Welcome the President
Chapter 24. Democratic Congress Ends
Chapter 25. A Farewell to President Wilson
Chapter 26. President Wilson Wins the 64th Vote in Paris
Chapter 27. Republican Congress Passes Amendment
Appendices

Illustrations

Alice Paul
Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont
Democrats Attempt to Counteract Woman’s Party Campaign
Inez Milholland Boissevain
Scene of Memorial Service-Statuary Hall, the Capitol
Scenes on the Picket Line
Monster Picket—March 4, 1917
Officer Arrests Pickets
Women Put into Police Patrol
Suffragists in Prison Costume
Fellow Prisoners
Sewing Room at Occoquan Workhouse
Riotous Scenes on Picket Line
Dudley Field Malone
Lucy Burns
Mrs. Mary Nolan, Oldest Picket
Miss Matilda Young, Youngest Picket
Forty-One Women Face Jail
Prisoners Released
“Lafayette We Are Here”
Wholesale Arrests
Suffragists March to LaFayette Monument
Torch-Bearer, and Escorts
Some Public Men Who Protested Against Imprisonment of Suffragists
Abandoned Jail
Prisoners on Straw Pallets on Jail Floor
Pickets at Capitol
Senate Pages and Capitol Police Attack Pickets
The Urn Guarded by Miss Berthe Arnold
The Bell Which Tolled the Change of Watch
Watchfire “Legal”
Watchfire Scattered by Police-Dr. Caroline Spencer Rebuilding it
One Hundred Women Hold Public Conflagration
Pickets in Front of Reviewing Stand, Boston
Mrs. Louise Sykes Burning President Wilson’s Speech on Boston Common
Suffrage Prisoners