Jailed for freedom
Subtitle: the story of the militant American suffragist movement
By: by Doris Stevens ; edited by Marjorie J. Spruill
Contributors: Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951-
Series: Lakeside classics -- 106
Publisher: R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Women; Suffrage; Suffragists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Leadership; title: Militant pioneer: Susan B. Anthony; title: Militant general: Alice Paul; title: Part II. Political action; title: Women invade the capital; title: Women voters organize; title: Last deputation to President Wilson; title: Part III. Militancy; title: Picketing a president; title: Suffrage war policy; title: First arrests; title: Occoquan Workhouse; title: August riots; title: Prison episodes; title: Administration protest: Dudley Field Malone resigns; title: Administration yields; title: Political prisoners; title: Hunger strike: a weapon; title: Administration terrorism; title: Alice Paul in prison; title: Administration outwitted; title: Political results; title: Interlude (seven months); title: New attacks on the president; title: President Wilson appeals to the Senate too late; title: More pressure; title: President sails away; title: Watchfires of freedom; title: Burned in effigy; title: Boston militants welcome the President; title: Democratic congress ends; title: Farewell to President Wilson; title: At last; title: Text of the National Suffrage Amendment.