Jan. 10, 1917, the National Woman's Party begins their "Silent Sentinels"
protesrs in front of the White House, demanding that Woodrow Wilson support Women's Suffrage. The NWP (founded by Alice Paul) had determined that the strategy of the NAWSA (National American Women's Suffrage Assc, founded by Carrie Chapman Catt) organization of pursuing Women's Suffrage state by state was wrong, and they were going after a Constitutional Amendment.
Anybody who has seen "Iron Jawed Angels: or the "Bad Romance/Women's Suffrage" music video knows a bit about how the Sentinels were harassed, beaten, imprisoned, tortured, all for daring to denand suffrage and recognition as full citizens. Never forget that that is what the woman-hating pukes, nat-c's, etc, would have us relive.
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