Jailed for Freedom

[1] Originally published in 1920, it was reissued by New Sage Press in 1995 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

[6] Johanna Neumann in The Wall Street Journal ranked Jailed for Freedom number one on her list of the five best books on the fight for women's suffrage.

[7] Jailed for Freedom is extensively quoted in Encyclopædia Britannica's Annals of American History in the essay "Suffragettes Criminals or Political Prisoners?

[9] She wrote Jailed for Freedom, which was a firsthand account of her involvement with the more militant National Woman's Party and their fight for suffrage, published in 1920.

[2] Stevens was an organizer and a devout participant in the Silent Sentinels, protests which began in January 1917 outside of the White House, urging President Woodrow Wilson to pass the 19th Amendment.

Part 2 is titled "Political Action" and talks about women organizing to protest the capital and President Woodrow Wilson to gain the right of suffrage.

Stevens recounts how Alice Paul had a quality to her which allowed her to recruit women and men to the Suffrage Movement without an argument.

[1] In March 1913, before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, women led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns paraded in front of the Capital.

The women led by Alice Paul and NWP went to congress, lobbied, petitioned, and raised tons of money because now suffrage became a national issue.

Led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, women appeared every day at the gates of the White House from the months of June to November to picket the president, Woodrow Wilson, for his lack of action towards the suffragist cause.

The woman used the US involvement in World War I as fuel for their cause, calling Wilson a hypocrite for fighting for 'liberty abroad' while denying it to women at home.

Continued hunger strike resulted women in being force-fed through feeding tubes, that were forced down their noses, leaving them bloody.

Two months later, Wilson remained inactive on the issue and Malone resigned from office on the account that he could "no longer be a part of an administration that sent American women to disgusting prisons for demanding suffrage".

"[1][11] In the 27 chapters of Part Three, Stevens continues to describe picketing the White House, in addition to the legal repercussions of doing so throughout 1917.

In the time leading up to the first arrests, the suffragettes picketing the White House specifically protested the decision of the Wilson administration to focus solely on "wartime measures."...

Stevens believed that the Wilson Administration was left only two choices by the picketers: "It must yield to this pressure from the people or it mist suppress the agitation which was causing such interest.

"[1] Choosing to get rid of the picketers, the Administration had the police department warn the National Women's Party, before arresting Lucy Burns and Katherine Morey at the next protest.

Here, many women, including Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, protested their sentence, and the poor conditions of the facility by going on hunger strike.

[1] Following the release of the prisoners, there was a large amount of public support for the movement, and enough pressure of President Wilson to convince him to set a date for Congress to vote on the 19th Amendment.