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Belle Sheinberg

Released
Date of birth:12. 10. 1895
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
14 Days
Support
Women's Suffrage
Belle Sheinberg

Biography

Belle Sheinberg was a member of the National Woman’s Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Her date of death is unresolved.

She was arrested on November 10, 1917, held again on November 13, sentenced on November 14 to thirty days, and transferred to the Occoquan Workhouse on November 15. She was released with the remaining prisoners on November 27 and 28, about thirteen or fourteen days into the sentence.

Stevens describes Sheinberg as a New York University student who left her studies to participate in the Washington suffrage picketing campaign.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 367.

Case

Arrested: Nov 10, 1917
Incarcerated: Nov 14, 1917
Released: Nov 28, 1917
Sentence: Thirty days, imposed November 14, 1917 after arrest on November 10 and a further detention on November 13. Transferred to the Occoquan Workhouse on November 15 and released with the remaining prisoners on November 27 and 28.