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    In 1913, frustrated by the lack of progress toward a federal women’s suffrage amendment, some younger members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) decided to step up their efforts. Led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, they organized a suffrage parade held in Washington, D.C. on March 3, the day before Wilson’s inauguration as pr...

    By 1916, nine U.S. states had given women the right to vote. Though he supported suffrage on a state level, President Wilson opposed the federal amendment, and Paul and the NWP decided to aim their protests directly at him. In January 1917, right before Wilson’s second term began, women began gathering outside the White House every day, regardless ...

    Amid the wartime furor, many people began viewing the Silent Sentinels as unforgivably unpatriotic. Onlookers sometimes attacked the women and ripped their signs from their hands, while Wilson himself wrote to his daughter in Junethat the suffragists “seem bent on making their cause as obnoxious as possible.” That same month, police began arresting...

    Faced with brutal treatment by guards and horrendous living conditions at Occoquan, including worm-ridden food and filthy water and bedding, Paul and others began demanding to be treated as political prisoners. After going on a hunger strike, Paul was repeatedly force-fed and transferred in early November to the District Jail’s psychiatric ward. Th...

    In aftermath of the attack, many of the women began hunger strikes, as Whittaker denied them counsel and summoned U.S. Marines to guard the workhouse. But news of their mistreatment reached the suffragists outside Occoquan, as well as well-placed allies like Dudley Field Malone, an attorney who resigned his post in the Wilson administration in soli...

    In November 1917, 33 suffragists who picketed the White House were arrested and brutally beaten at Occoquan Workhouse. They endured the Night of Terror, a turning point in the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights.

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  1. Night of Terror is a 1933 American pre-Code horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, and starring Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, and Tully Marshall. Despite receiving top billing, Bela Lugosi has a relatively small part. The film is also known as He Lived to Kill and Terror in the Night.

  2. Oct 1, 2023 · Embark on a night of terror unlike any other with paranormal investigator Jack Osbourne as he explores the most spine-chilling destinations across America with his famous family and closest celebrity friends.

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    • 2023-10-01
  3. Nov 10, 2017 · The suffragists dubbed their treatment Nov. 14, 1917, as the “Night of Terror,” and it helped galvanize public support of the suffrage movement.

  4. A seance at a spooky mansion turns into a murder mystery as a knife-wielding maniac stalks the heirs to a family fortune. Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford and Sally Blane star in this low-budget but entertaining film with a twist ending.

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    • Horror, Mystery, Thriller
    • Benjamin Stoloff
    • 1933-04-24
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