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Elizabeth Stuyvesant

Released
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
2 Days
Support
Women's Suffrage
Elizabeth Stuyvesant

Biography

Elizabeth Stuyvesant 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. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: July 4, 1917: three days.

Stevens describes Stuyvesant as a professional dancer, formerly of Cincinnati and then living in New York City, active in settlement work and the birth-control campaign.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 368.

Case

Charges: Obstructing traffic
Arrested: Jul 4, 1917
Incarcerated: Jul 6, 1917
Released: Jul 8, 1917
Sentence: July 4, 1917: three days.