Biography
Gladys Greiner 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 records an October 20, 1917 picketing arrest carrying a thirty-day District Jail sentence and a separate August 1918 Lafayette Square arrest carrying fifteen days. Both are distinct from Greiner’s already recorded July 1917 imprisonment. The imposed terms are not measured custody totals; no admission or release date is established.
Stevens records Greiner’s education at Forest Glen Seminary, settlement work in Kentucky’s mountain districts, Maryland tennis and golf championships, and subsequent work in the labor movement.
