Suffrage Prisoners
The following individuals depicted in Women of Protest were among the many National Woman’s Party activists who were arrested and imprisoned for their role in suffrage protests. An asterisk next to the individual’s name indicates that an image portrays them under arrest, in jail, wearing prison garb, or as speakers on the “Prison Special,” the cross-country speaking tour to several major American cities undertaken by 26 former inmates in February-March 1919 to inform audiences about their experience as political prisoners. Among those listed below who participated in the "Prison Special," are Pauline Prisoners Doris Stevens, Allison Adams, Edith Ainge, Berthe Arnold, Lillian Ascough, Abby Turnbull Hopkins, Eunice Dana Scott Baker, Lucy G. Branham, Lucy Burns, Sarah T. Colvin, Brannan. Associated Press Photos. 1919. About this image Lucy Ewing, L. W. E. Havemeyer, Vida Milholland, Mary Nolan, Elizabeth S. Rogers, Mabel Vernon, and Sue Shelton White. *Adams, Pauline Ainge, Edith *Arniel, Annie Arnold, Berthe Image 1 | Image 2 Arnold, Virginia Image 1 | Image 2 Ascough, Lillian *Baker, Abby Scott Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Boyle, Catherine *Branham, Lucy Gwynne Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 | Image 4 *Brannan, Eunice Dana Image 1 | Image 2 *Burns, Lucy Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Calderhead, Iris Colvin, Sarah Tarleton Crocker, Gertrude L. Image 1 | Image 2 Dubrow, Mary Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Emory, Julia Image 1 | Image 2 Ewing, Lucy Fendall, Mary Gertrude Image 1 | Image 2 *Flanagan, Catherine M. Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Fotheringham, Janet Gardner, Matilda Hall Gram, Betty Gray, Natalie H. Hara, Ernestine *Havemeyer, Louisine Waldron Elder *Heffelfinger, Kate Image 1 | Image 2
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Hennessy, Minnie Hill, Elsie M. Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Hilles, Florence Bayard *Hopkins, Alison Turnbull Image 1 | Image 2 Hunkins-Hallinan, Hazel Image 1 | Image 2 Hurlbut, Julia Kalb, Elizabeth Green Image 1 | Image 2 *Lewis, Dora Kelley Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Martin, Anne Mercer, Nell *Milholland, Vida Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 *Moller, Bertha C. Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Morey, Agnes H. Morey, Katharine A. Nolan, Mary A. Paul, Alice Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 | Image 4 Quay, Minnie Rogers, Elizabeth S. Samarodin, Nina Spencer, Caroline E. *Stevens, Doris Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 Stuyvesant, Elizabeth Vernon, Mabel Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 | Image 4 Watson, Madeleine Image 1 | Image 2 *Weed, Helena Hill Image 1 | Image 2 White, Sue Shelton Image 1 | Image 2 Whittemore, Margaret Wiley, Anna Kelton Winslow, Rose Winsor, Mary Young, Joy Image 1 | Image 2 | Image 3 *Young, Matilda
In the Records of the National Woman’s Party held by the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, there are additional photographs, which have not been digitized on this site, of these and other women who were arrested or imprisoned as suffrage demonstrators. For a complete list of activists who were jailed or imprisoned, including the names of those not depicted in Women of Protest, see Appendix 4 “Suffrage Prisoners,” in Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 354-71. Jailed for Freedom is available as a Project Gutenberg e-book at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3604 and elsewhere on the Web in e-book format.
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