Biography
Cora Week 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. Held at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia or the District of Columbia Jail, many of these prisoners joined hunger strikes and were force-fed.
Stevens individually identifies the picketer and records: Thirty days in District Jail after the November 10, 1917 picket. This imposed term does not establish actual service or new endpoints.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 16.
Stevens describes Week’s art training in Boston and the Art Students League of New York, work helping organize the Oliver Merson Atelier in Paris, exhibition at the Paris Salon and participation in the 1919 Prison Special tour.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 369.
