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Jailed for Freedom pendant, 1970s
Jailed for Freedom pin, 1919, and commemorative copies
This original pin was awarded to Lucille Calmes
Remembering the Militants
The leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) would have been appalled, but the story of Alice Paul and her White House pickets struck a chord with the new generation of activists. Conference attendees could buy reproductions of the "Jailed for Freedom" prison door pins awarded to women imprisoned for participating in suffrage demonstrations from 1917 to 1919. |