Night of Terror at Occoquan Workhouse

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The Night of Terror at Occoquan Workhouse was a brutal 1917 crackdown in which imprisoned American suffragists were beaten, abused, and tortured for their activism, galvanizing public support for women's voting rights.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical event
political repression incident
women's suffrage protest crackdown
associatedOrganization National Woman's Party
associatedWith Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
characterizedBy beatings of prisoners
denial of contact with families
denial of legal counsel
force-feeding of hunger strikers
physical abuse
psychological abuse
solitary confinement
torture
country United States of America
hasCause arrest of Silent Sentinels for obstructing traffic
picketing the White House for women's suffrage
hasDate 1917-11-14
hasEffect galvanized public support for women's suffrage
increased sympathy for imprisoned suffragists
political pressure on Woodrow Wilson administration
strengthened campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
hasEndDate 1917-11-15
hasStartDate 1917-11-14
legalOutcome court rulings questioning legality of arrests
eventual release of suffragist prisoners
location Fairfax County, Virginia
Lorton, Virginia
linked to: Lorton

Occoquan Workhouse
motive to intimidate women's suffrage protesters
to punish suffrage activism
notablePrisoner Alice Cosu
Dora Lewis
Dorothy Day
Julia Emory
Lucy Burns
Rose Winslow
partOf American women's suffrage movement
Silent Sentinels campaign
perpetratedBy guards at Occoquan Workhouse
superintendent W. H. Whittaker
relatedTo Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Silent Sentinels
White House pickets for suffrage
rememberedFor brutal treatment of suffragists
role in advancing women's voting rights in the United States
victim Silent Sentinels
imprisoned suffragists
members of the National Woman's Party

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Silent Sentinels White House picketing notableEvent Night of Terror at Occoquan Workhouse