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Suffragists:
White House Protestors Jailed:
In January 1917, members of the National Women's Party, led by Alice Paul, began picketing outside the White House in support of woman suffrage, the first political activists to do so. The protestors were arrested and, in some cases, imprisoned in Virginia's Occoquan Workhouse. While in jail, many were mistreated; some went on hunger strikes and were force-fed. |