Berthe Arnold

She participated in protests for women's right to vote, during which she was attacked by mobs and arrested, until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

"[12] She was among a group of women of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU), founded in 1913 by Lucy Burns and Alice Paul.

[13] Upon coming to Washington D.C. in 1918, she became Alice Paul's private secretary and participated in suffragist non-violent protests, realizing that she could be arrested and jailed.

Among forty protesters, the group burned papers printed with President Woodrow Wilson's "empty words about democracy".

We, the women of the United States, denied the liberty which you helped to gain, and for which we have asked in vain for sixty years, turn to you to plead for us.At a protest in late 1918, suffragists intended to burn the empty words of anti-suffragist senators in the Senate chambers, but the police confiscated banners and flags from the women and held them for several hours.

[15] In January 1919, her activities were reported in the Colorado Springs Gazette, including "Miss Arnold in Next Watchfire Party at Capitol", followed by news of her arrest and sentencing.

[16] She was arrested at the Watchfires for Justice protest in January 1919, when President Wilson's words about democracy were burned in cauldrons.

[3] She was a National Woman's Party organizer, including her efforts in Florida and New Hampshire,[17] until women received the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution[3] on August 18, 1920.

[19] She portrayed Lucretia Mott in an Equal Rights Amendment pageant at the Garden of the Gods in 1923 at Colorado Springs.

Berthe Arnold looking downward at an urn containing a burning "watchfire" maintained in front of National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, D.C. Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. (photographer), January 1919, Library of Congress [ a ]
Berthe Louise Arnold, sitting on the front step at the home of her grandfather, Dr. W. W. Arnold, 1900. Holding a Protection Umbrella, with the words "I am a Pikes Peak McKinley Girl", used in 1898 campaign. Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College , Colorado Springs, Colorado [ 2 ]
Following the Senate's defeat of the woman suffrage amendment in March 1914, lobbying and petitioning efforts organized by the National Woman's Party continued with fervency. This photograph of suffragists carrying a large rolled petition for Senator Andrieus A. Jones , the chairman of the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, was carried to the Senate by Annie Fraher of Boston, Bertha Moller of Minneapolis , Berthe Arnold of Colorado Springs, and Anita Pollitzer of Charleston, South Carolina . The photograph was taken in front of the National Woman's Party headquarters.
Bertha Moller, left, and Bertha Arnold hold party banner which was held at the Senate Office Building , Washington, D.C., ca. 1917, Library of Congress
Two National Woman's Party members standing with luggage and supplies for the " Prison Special " tour, in front of the NWP headquarters in Washington, D.C.