Biography
Mabel Vernon was a Suffragist, pacifist, and longtime organizer for the National Woman's Party who was one of the first Silent Sentinels arrested for picketing the White House. Vernon went on to become a leading peace activist and director of the People's Mandate Committee, lobbying for disarmament in the 1930s through 1950s.
Stevens identifies Vernon as a Swarthmore graduate and fellow student of Alice Paul who left high-school teaching to organize and speak for the Congressional Union. Her entry describes the transcontinental voting-envoy trip to the President, Nevada campaigns in 1914 and 1916, national organization work for the National Woman’s Party and several months organizing the Washington picket line.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 368.
The June 27, 1917 Washington report individually lists Mabel Vernon among six suffrage picketers convicted in police court following White House banner demonstrations. It reports an alternative of a $25 fine or three days and says the women were consulting counsel about their choice. This contemporary report establishes the announced alternatives, rather than independently proving three days actually served. Its $25 figure is preserved as reported without replacing different fine amounts or actual custody recorded from other sources.
