History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0769 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Silent Sentinels
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The idea
From January nineteen seventeen Paul's Silent Sentinels picketed the White House for nearly two years, demanding a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage.
In practice
Arrested picketers on hunger strike in jail, force-fed to keep them alive.
Where people slip
When their treatment became public, the anchor says, President Wilson changed his position and supported a constitutional right to vote.
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