Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Women's Right to Vote

Women's Right to Vote:

'via Blog this'Women's Suffrage Movement

"By the end of the night, they were barely alive. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead. She suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, and kicking the women. Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917."
  -- From powerful essay on prison treatment of suffragettes fighting for women's right to vote

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