USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Police arrested Paul and others for “obstructing traffic on the sidewalks.” In jail, they were served worm-infested food and slept on dirty beds, and Paul even went on a hunger strike until doctors forced her to eat. Many other women were treated the same way for fighting for equal rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alice Paul was a Quaker suffragist who fought to secure women the right to vote and other feminist causes. The author of the Equal Rights Amendment, written in 1923 but still not ratified, died at the age of 92 in 1977, and remains one of the nation’s most outspoken voices in the battle for equality.

Detailed explanation-3: -In prison, Paul and her fellow activists began hunger strikes to bring attention to their imprisonment. British authorities force-fed the women by putting tubes down their through their nostrils. They would often vomit through the violent process.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hunger strikes were carried out by imprisoned suffragettes because they were not given the status of political prisoners. Prisons responded by force feeding suffragettes on hunger strike. Winson Green prison in Birmingham was one of the first prisons in the country to practise force feeding on suffragettes.