The Silent Sentinels picket the White House
1917–1919 · Event
Alice Paul's National Woman's Party mounts the first-ever picket of the White House: women standing silent at the gates six days a week, holding the president's own words on banners. Arrests, workhouse beatings and force-feeding follow — until the scandal helps push Wilson, and then Congress, behind the Nineteenth Amendment.
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