First Suffragist Arrests Begin for White House Picketing as State Repression Escalates
On June 22, 1917, police arrested six suffragists for picketing the White House, initiating a campaign of state repression against the Silent Sentinels that would eventually result in 168 National Woman’s Party members serving time in prison. The arrests came after the United States entered …
Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
National Woman's Party
Woodrow Wilson
Washington DC Police
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