Jailed for Freedom Pin presented to Lucille Angiel Calmes, 1919
notes: label: Description
content: Luciille Angiel Calmes received this Jailed for Freedom pin, a small silver prison door with a heart-shaped lock, after she was arrested and sentenced to five days in a District of Columbia jail for participating in a watch fire demonstration on January 13, 1919.
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content: The watch fires of freedom marked a return of woman suffrage pickets to the White House. They burned copies of President Woodrow Wilson's speeches in small cauldrons, calling attention to the hypocrisy of his touting democratic principles abroad while he refusing secure the Senate votes needed to pass the woman suffrage amendment.
label: Description
content: The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women was ratified in August 1920.
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Suffrage
label: used
content: Women's Rights
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content: Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lucille Agniel Calmes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.247867.01
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content: 247867
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content: 247867.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 1 in x 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm x .635 cm