Iron Jawed Angels - Force Feeding Scene
A dramatic re-enactment of the process by which Alice Paul (Hillary Swank) was forced to undergo a forced feeding while in jail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw
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In this short clip from the HBO film, Iron Jawed Angels, the main character Alice Paul (Hillary Swank) is force fed during a hunger strike while in jail.
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Posted April 26, 2008
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Miss [Lucy] Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington
Lucy Burns, pictured here in her cell, was arrested numerous times for picketing the White House and after other protests.
Lucy Burns was a co-founder of the Congressional Union, which beacme the National Woman's Party in 1917. She espoused the aggressive attention grabbing tactics of the English suffragette movement. Jailed repeatedly between 1913 and 1919 for picketing and demonstrating; Burns continued her protest with hunger strikes while incarcerated. She suffered the indignities of a forced feeding where tubes were driven into her throat or nose in order to keep her from starving.
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Nov. 1917
Photographic Print
Washinton jail used to house arrested picketers on hunger strike.
Abandoned jail near D.C. Prison where pickets of Aug. 18 were confined during long hunger strike. All returned to NWP Hdqtrs. in ambulances. (Title transcribed from item.)
After the picketers were arrested many sought to continue the protest in jail by engaging in hunger strikes. Subject to isolation, misinformation and force-feeding, the incarcerated women maintained their strikes and the resulting publicity helped alert the general public to their cause and dedication.
Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
ca. 1917
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WILSON EXHORTS THE FOREIGN BORN:May Keep Love of Home, He Says, but New Allegiance Is Supreme. STIRS CHICAGO CROWDS Makes Three Addresses, Receiving the Greatest Demonstrations of the Campaign. CROWD ROUTS SUFFRAGISTS Breaks Up a Silent Demonstration and Seizes Banners -- Police Apathy Charged.
Wilson pro-war rally in Chicago turns violent as NWP protesters arrive and are set upon by the crowd.
This article talks about Wilson calling the nation together in a time of war in Europe during a speech in Chicago. After his arrival, but before his speech, NWP protesters arrived carrying signs calling on Wilson to endorse women's suffrage. After Wilson had entered the auditorium to give his speech the crowd set upon the protesters taking their signs and breaking them and beating many of the female protesters. The NWP released a statement, cited in the article, that called out the police for refusing to subdue the crowd. Allegations of police indifference to the fate of protesters was to be a frequent refrain of the NWP.
The section detailing the NWP starts at the beginning of the full section after scrolling down through the thin vertical section.
Special to The New York Times.
New York Times (1857-1922). New York, N.Y.:Oct 20, 1916. p. 1 (2 pp.)
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October 20, 1916
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WOMAN ARRESTS SUFFRAGE PICKETS:White House Banner Bearers Protest, but Offer No Resistance. WILL HAVE HEARING Ex-Official of Czar's Government Writes Letter Which Bakmetleff Mission Repudiates. RESENT PICKETS' 'DISLOYALTY' Suffragists Here Continue to Condemn Woman's Party Tactics
Suffragist Lucy Burns and another picketer are arrested outside the White House.
This article describes the arrest of two picketers, one of whom is Lucy Burns, outside the White House. The article relate that Burns was called on by a female officer to go peacefully and relinquish the banner she was carrying with her associate. Burns refused, calling the banner her property and challenging the officers to take it from her. Particularly poignant in the article is the letter written by a Russian émigré praising the women for their staunch adherence to democratic values. This letter is then denounced by the official Russian government representatives in Washington as it would jeopardize their relationship with President Wilson.
Special to The New York Times.
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New York Times (1857-1922). New York, N.Y.: Jun 23, 1917. pg. 9, 1 pgs
June 22, 1917
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Women Vote - "Night of Terror" (Women`s Suffrage/Woman`s Rights)
The Night of Terror described in a Youtube video
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeOHPfsCtFo&feature=related</p>
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<p>This video describes the events that surround the "Night of Terror" on November 14, 1917. In a jail outside of Washington DC guards brutally beat the NWP members incarcerated their for picketing. Some women were chained to the doors of their cell, one was thrown to the floor and her cell mate believed her dead from the way she lay still after this attack. The subsequent publication of the abuse in national newspapers helped draw support for the federal amendment to grant women the right to vote.</p>
Macrae Cain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeOHPfsCtFo&feature=related
Macrae Cain on Youtube
September 27, 2008
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