Biography
Bertha Moller was a Minnesota 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 papers are held by the Minnesota Historical Society. (Recorded as Bertha Berglin Moller Delin; 1888-1951)
She was jailed twice. On January 15, 1919 she was held twenty-four hours for contempt of court, released the following day. Arrested again on January 27, she was sentenced on January 28 to five days; the exact release date is unresolved.
Custody record
Doris Stevens’s participant history Jailed for Freedom explicitly says Moller served two terms: twenty-four hours for applauding in court and five days for a January 1919 watchfire demonstration. The five served days are recorded independently of the still-unresolved final release date.
Stevens identifies Moller with Minneapolis and describes her work for state suffrage before she joined the National Woman’s Party, together with an interest in industrial problems.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 365.
