Jailed for Freedom

by Doris Stevens


Contents

[Preface]
[Part I. Leadership]
[Chapter1. A Militant Pioneer—Susan B. Anthony]
[Chapter 2. A Militant General—Alice Paul]
[Part II. Political Action]
[Chapter 1. Women Invade the Capital]
[Chapter 2. Women Voters Organize]
[Chapter 3. The Last Deputation to President Wilson]
[Part III. Militancy]
[Chapter 1. Picketing a President]
[Chapter 2. The Suffrage War Policy]
[Chapter 3. The First Arrests]
[Chapter 4. Occoquan Workhouse]
[Chapter 5. August Riots]
[Chapter 6. Prison Episodes]
[Chapter 7. An Administration Protest—Dudley Field Malone Resigns]
[Chapter 8. The Administration Yields]
[Chapter 9. Political Prisoners]
[Chapter 10. The Hunger Strike—A Weapon]
[Chapter 11. Administration Terrorism]
[Chapter 12. Alice Paul in Prison]
[Chapter 13. Administration—Lawlessness Exposed]
[Chapter 14. The Administration Outwitted]
[Chapter 15. Political Results]
[Chapter 16. An Interlude (Seven Months)]
[Chapter 17. New Attacks on the President]
[Chapter 18. The President Appeals to the Senate Too Late]
[Chapter 19. More Pressure]
[Chapter 20. The President Sails Away]
[Chapter 21. Watchfires of Freedom]
[Chapter 22. Burned in Effigy]
[Chapter 23. Boston Militants Welcome the President]
[Chapter 24. Democratic Congress Ends]
[Chapter 25. A Farewell to President Wilson]
[Chapter 26. President Wilson Wins the 64th Vote in Paris]
[Chapter 27. Republican Congress Passes Amendment]
[Appendices]

Illustrations

Alice Paul
Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont
Democrats Attempt to Counteract Woman’s Party Campaign
Inez Milholland Boissevain
Scene of Memorial Service-Statuary Hall, the Capitol
Scenes on the Picket Line
Monster Picket—March 4, 1917
Officer Arrests Pickets
Women Put into Police Patrol
Suffragists in Prison Costume
Fellow Prisoners
Sewing Room at Occoquan Workhouse
Riotous Scenes on Picket Line
Dudley Field Malone
Lucy Burns
Mrs. Mary Nolan, Oldest Picket
Miss Matilda Young, Youngest Picket
Forty-One Women Face Jail
Prisoners Released
“Lafayette We Are Here”
Wholesale Arrests
Suffragists March to LaFayette Monument
Torch-Bearer, and Escorts
Some Public Men Who Protested Against Imprisonment of Suffragists
Abandoned Jail
Prisoners on Straw Pallets on Jail Floor
Pickets at Capitol
Senate Pages and Capitol Police Attack Pickets
The Urn Guarded by Miss Berthe Arnold
The Bell Which Tolled the Change of Watch
Watchfire “Legal”
Watchfire Scattered by Police-Dr. Caroline Spencer Rebuilding it
One Hundred Women Hold Public Conflagration
Pickets in Front of Reviewing Stand, Boston
Mrs. Louise Sykes Burning President Wilson’s Speech on Boston Common
Suffrage Prisoners

To
Alice Paul

Through Whose Brilliant and Devoted Leadership the Women of America Have Been Able to Consummate with Gladness and Gallant Courage Their Long Struggle for Political Liberty, This Book is Affectionately Dedicated

PREFACE