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4. März 2019 · In November 1917, 33 suffragists who picketed the White House were arrested and brutally beaten at Occoquan Workhouse. They endured the Night of Terror, a turning point in the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights.
- Sarah Pruitt
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10. Nov. 2017 · ‘Night of terror’: The suffragists who were beaten and tortured for seeking the vote. By Terence McArdle. November 10, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. EST. Suffragists march to the White House in the...
30. Juli 2020 · On the night of November 14, 1917, 31 suffragists and members of the National Woman’s Party (“NWP”) were taken to Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia and tortured and beaten. This so-called “Night of Terror” captured national headlines at the time and has been memorialized through digital sites today.
Nearly six years later it is a moment of reckoning for the thousands of people who, directly or indirectly, found themselves caught up in France's worst ever night of terrorism. Opening on ...
Tells the story of the seventy-two-year campaign for women's suffrage. Considered the largest reform movement in American history, its participants believed that securing the vote was essential to achieving women's economic, social, and political equality.
Learn how suffragists were beaten and abused at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 for picketing the White House. Listen to an eyewitness account and see a jail door pin from the prison.
28. Apr. 2024 · The Night of Terror of 1917. On November 14, 1917, about 20 to 30 women who were protesting in front of the White House for equal rights and equal voting rights were arrested and beaten/treated brutally throughout their prison sentences.
