Conditions in the Occuquan Workhouse, where arrested suffragettes were imprisoned in 1917, were poor. The food was particularly unsanitary. On one occasion, women sent a spoonful of worms drawn fro...

"If we have no right act, then may we well be termed 'the white slaves of the North,' for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair." "I never doubted that equal righ...

The Fight for Equal RightsNumber of "silent sentinels" arrested in 1917 and 1918 for picketing the White House in support of women's suffrage: more than 500 Typical jail sentence for "silent sentin...

Equal Rights Amendment

American Anti-Slavery Society The most prominent abolitionist organization of the antebellum period. Founded by Theodore Weld and Arthur and Lewis Tappan, the AASS argued that "moral suasion" could...