[2] When the Democratic Party blocked proposed equality legislation for women, NWP members concentrated their efforts on picketing the White House in Washington.

Demonstrating with the Silent Sentinels Hunkins chained herself to the White House gates in 1917, for which she was subjected to physical violence and verbal abuse from crowds and police, then jailed, along with other suffragists.

[1] Her future husband Charles Hallinan crossed the Atlantic to follow her in November as the financial editor of United Press International.

[2] Hunkins Hallinan was an active and long term senior member of the Six Point Group (SPG), joining in 1922 and remaining involved until her death.

She later said that 'My very modest distinction is that I am the only American woman who has achieved the chairmanship of a national organisation (British) without having climbed to that office through marriage to an English title!

'[2] She was a member of the Married Women's Association, alongside Vera Brittain, Juanita Frances, Doreen Gorsky, Helena Normanton and Lady Helen Nutting.

[2] In 1977, she returned to the US to join a commemoration of the 1917 march of 5,000 women along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, that led to her imprisonment, along with Alice Paul.

"[6] Soon after her last release from prison, Hunkins met her future husband, Charles Thomas Hallinan (d. 1971), at a pacifist meeting where he was a speaker.

[10] Hunkins Hallinan talks about the work of Teresa Billington-Greig, and discusses the formation of the Married Women's Association growing out of the Six Point Group, including the differences in opinion which prevented their amalgamation.