USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ten Suffragists Arrested While Picketing at the White House. Between June and November 1917, 218 protestors from 26 states were arrested and charged with “obstructing sidewalk traffic” outside the White House gates.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sentinels continued to protest, even burning an effigy of the president in front of the White House in February of 1919. They continued to picket until congress passed the 19th Amendment, and then dispersed to the states where they began agitating for ratification.

Detailed explanation-3: -Soon, public opinion is blasting the women for picketing a wartime president. Eventually, the police arrive and arrest Lucy, Ruza, Doris, and others. Alice learns that her cohorts were charged with “obstructing traffic.” The defendants are found guilty and sentenced to sixty days in a workhouse or a ten dollar fine.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lucy Burns and Katherine Morey, first pickets arrested while demonstrating outside White House; never brought to trial.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Silent Sentinels, also known as the Sentinels of Liberty, were a group of over 2, 000 women in favor of women’s suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party, who protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency starting on January 10, 1917.