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Related: About this forumWomen of Protest: A Feminist History Refresher
(Not to make light of the issues so many face today, nobody should be forced to wait so long. The intent is to stop you from participating, and the hours-long waits are so very worthwhile.)
http://jessbennett.tumblr.com/post/34993594224/women-of-protest-a-feminist-history-refresher
It wasnt until 1920 that women were granted suffrage, but it was 1917 when members of the National Womens Party Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and others picketed outside the White House, burning copies of Woodrow Wilsons speeches and demanding the right to vote. What resulted mass arrests (most for obstructing traffic), unlawful imprisonment and bloody beatings became known as the Night of Terror, though its fair to say most among my generation dont know it.
The Night of Terror took place on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Workhouse Prison, in Occoquan, Virginia, ordered his guards to teach the suffragists a lesson. For weeks, the womens only water had come from an open pail. Their food had been infested with worms. But on this night, some 40 prison guards wielding clubs beat the women senseless grabbing, dragging, choking, kicking and pinching them, according to affidavits recounting the attacks.
...It would take three more years for women to win the right to vote.
It wasnt until 1920 that women were granted suffrage, but it was 1917 when members of the National Womens Party Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and others picketed outside the White House, burning copies of Woodrow Wilsons speeches and demanding the right to vote. What resulted mass arrests (most for obstructing traffic), unlawful imprisonment and bloody beatings became known as the Night of Terror, though its fair to say most among my generation dont know it.
The Night of Terror took place on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Workhouse Prison, in Occoquan, Virginia, ordered his guards to teach the suffragists a lesson. For weeks, the womens only water had come from an open pail. Their food had been infested with worms. But on this night, some 40 prison guards wielding clubs beat the women senseless grabbing, dragging, choking, kicking and pinching them, according to affidavits recounting the attacks.
...It would take three more years for women to win the right to vote.
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Women of Protest: A Feminist History Refresher (Original Post)
redqueen
Nov 2012
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CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)1. A fab post on this important day!
~kick!
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)2. Yes indeed
Lest we forget..
ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)3. Heh
Just spread that one at this other place I post at. Perfection.