Silent Sentinels White House picketing

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Silent Sentinels White House picketing was a landmark 1917–1919 suffrage protest in which women silently demonstrated outside the White House to demand voting rights for women in the United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf nonviolent protest
picketing campaign
political demonstration
suffrage protest
aimedAt Woodrow Wilson
surface form: President Woodrow Wilson
alsoKnownAs Silent Sentinels
cause women's suffrage in the United States
characteristic daily picketing except on Sundays and some holidays
first group to picket the White House for a political cause
city Washington, D.C.
commemoratedBy exhibits at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
historical markers in Washington, D.C.
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endDate 1919
goal federal amendment for women's suffrage
voting rights for women
hasParticipant members of the National Woman's Party
suffragists
influenced passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
legalOutcome some convictions later overturned by courts
location White House
mediaCoverage extensive national press attention
method holding banners
silent picketing
notableEvent Night of Terror at Occoquan Workhouse
arrest of picketers on charges such as obstructing traffic
hunger strikes by imprisoned suffragists
imprisonment of suffragists at Occoquan Workhouse
opposedBy Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
surface form: District of Columbia police

Woodrow Wilson administration
organizedBy Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
National Woman's Party
partOf American women's suffrage movement
politicalContext Wilson's initial opposition to federal suffrage amendment
shift of Wilson to support federal suffrage amendment in 1918
relatedTo National Woman's Party
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
women's suffrage movement in the United States
result increased public sympathy for suffrage movement
pressure on Wilson administration to support suffrage amendment
slogan Woodrow Wilson
surface form: Kaiser Wilson

Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?
startDate 1917-01-10
timePeriod World War I

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National Woman's Party notableCampaign Silent Sentinels White House picketing
Silent Sentinels protest at the White House alsoKnownAs Silent Sentinels White House picketing
this entity surface form: Silent Sentinels campaign