Biography
Hazel Hunkins 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: August 1918: 15 days.
Stevens records Hunkins’s graduation from Vassar, chemistry instruction at the University of Missouri, organizing for the National Woman’s Party and subsequent work as an investigator for the War Labor Board.
Inez Haynes Irwin records a separate arrest on July 4, 1917: Hunkins, who was not part of the picket procession, tried to recover a suffrage banner from a man carrying it away and was arrested. Irwin expressly distinguishes her outcome from the eleven pickets who received jail sentences: the case against Hunkins was dismissed. Inez Haynes Irwin, The Story of the Woman’s Party (1921), printed pages 222–225.
