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Bertha M. Jackson

AKA: Mrs. Mark Jackson; Bertha Maude Rehbein Mather Jackson
Released
Date of birth:c. 1876
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Women's suffrage National Woman's Party Silent Sentinels
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Biography

Bertha M. Jackson, recorded more fully as Bertha Maude Rehbein Mather Jackson, was born about 1876 and 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 exact dates of birth and death are unresolved.

She was arrested on September 13, 1917 and sentenced to thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse. Presumptive completion was around October 13, 1917, but no individual discharge record has been found.

This record previously dated her arrest to August 1917 and was filed under her husband’s name, as Mrs. Mark Jackson.

Case

Charges: Arrested for picketing the Wilson White House for woman suffrage.
Arrested: Sep 13, 1917
Incarcerated: Sep 13, 1917
Sentence: Thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse, after arrest on September 13, 1917. An earlier version of this record dated the arrest to August 1917. No personal discharge record has been located, so the nominal completion date is not entered as a release.
Convicted: Imprisoned in the 1917-1919 National Woman's Party suffrage campaign