Biography
Nina Samorodin 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. (July 4, 1892 - November 28, 1981; later Nina Samorodin Ramuglia)
She was arrested on September 13, 1917 and sentenced to thirty days at the Occoquan Workhouse. Presumptive completion was around October 13, 1917; exact discharge documentation is unresolved.
Her surname was previously spelled Samarodin in this record; Samardin also appears in the sources.
Under the spelling Nina Samarodin, Stevens describes her education at the university in Kyiv, her 1914 visit to the United States followed by work and union organizing, and her teaching at New York’s Rand School of Social Science.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 367.
In chapter 9, Doris Stevens reproduces an appeal by Nina’s sister Vera to the Russian ambassador about Nina’s treatment at the Occoquan Workhouse. Vera requested recognition of her sister as a political prisoner, describing inadequate food, lost weight and restrictions on correspondence, books and study. The letter is evidence of a family effort to improve conditions during the already recorded imprisonment; it does not establish new admission or discharge dates. Stevens prints the surname as Samarodin.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (1920), chapter 9 of Part III.
