In January 1917
female suffragists
began standing quietly
outside the White
House six days a week,
with only their banners
declaring their cause.
Known as the Silent
Sentinels, the protest-
ers were determined
to shame President
Woodrow Wilson into
supporting a federal
suffrage amendment.
The women endured all
kinds of weather, harass-
ment from passersby,
and eventually, arrest
and imprisonment.
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