国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 7月9日 21時48分

Today in 1977: Alice Paul dies. This is her "jailed for freedom pin." As the leader of the National Woman's Party, she and her "silent sentinels" picketed at the White House gates for the vote, beginning in 1917. They were the first ever to picket the White House. They held banners addressed directly to President Wilson, such as "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait for their Liberty?" Crowds who believed the pickets’ activities were disloyal in a time of war attacked the suffragists and destroyed their banners. Police began arresting the pickets for "obstruction of traffic." When they refused to pay fines, they were imprisoned. When they went on hunger strikes to demand the rights of political prisoners they were forcibly fed—a painful and invasive procedure.
Alice was arrested in October. While in jail, she was forcibly fed and threatened with commitment to an insane asylum. Reports of the abuse of the suffragists became public and all prisoners were released in November.

She was awarded this silver pin in the shape of a prison door with a heart-shaped lock. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women was ratified in August 1920.

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