Suffragettes Picketing on Bastille Day
7/19/1917
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The original caption for this photograph reads: Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House. Miss Julia Hurlbut of Morristown, New Jersey, leading the sixteen members of the National Womans Party who participated in the picketing demonstration in front of the White House, Washington, District of Columbia, July 14, 1917, which led to their arrest. These sixteen women were sent to the workhouse at Occoquan, on July 17, 1917, upon their refusal to pay fines of $25 each, but were pardoned on July 19, 1917.
The National Women’s Party (NWP), previously known as the Congressional Union, was led by Alice Paul and used civil disobedience tactics similar to those of British suffragists – such as hunger strikes and protesting at public events – to fight for women's suffrage.
The National Women’s Party (NWP), previously known as the Congressional Union, was led by Alice Paul and used civil disobedience tactics similar to those of British suffragists – such as hunger strikes and protesting at public events – to fight for women's suffrage.
This primary source comes from the Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs.
National Archives Identifier: 533766
Full Citation: Photograph 165-WW-(600A)2; Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House. Miss Julia...; 7/19/1917; American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918; Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, Record Group 165; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/suffragettes-picketing-bastille-day, January 18, 2025]Activities that use this document
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