Biography
Julia Ridgely Emory (May 4, 1885 - February 1, 1979) was a Maryland 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. She was jailed four times.
Arrested on November 10, 1917, she was transferred to the Occoquan Workhouse on November 15 and assaulted there by superintendent Raymond Whittaker during the Night of Terror. She was released with the other November prisoners on November 27 or 28; which of the two days is hers has not been established. She served a further ten-day sentence from August 15 to 20, 1918, released early with the rest of that group. Arrested again on January 5, 1919, she was sentenced on January 7 to ten days, and arrested once more on January 13 and sentenced on January 14 to five days; the release dates for both January terms remain unresolved.
