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Mildred Morris

Released
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
5 Days
Support
Women's Suffrage
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Biography

Mildred Morris 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: January 1919: five days.

Stevens describes Morris as a Denver newspaperwoman who came to Washington for wartime Bureau of Public Information work, later investigated for the War Labor Board and worked as a Washington correspondent for the International News Service.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 365.

Case

Arrested: Jan 13, 1919
Incarcerated: Jan 13, 1919
Released: Jan 18, 1919
Sentence: January 1919: five days.