Iron Jawed Angels

In the beginning women didn’t have rights to do much. One major right that they didn’t have was the right to vote. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns put there life on the line and started a protest for women rights and ended up forcing Woodrow Wilson to pass the 19th amendment in 1920.

During this time Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were protesting in front of the White House. Women were getting arrested for doing such charges as obstructing traffic. The charges were unusual because the women were just standing out in front of the White House and men would come and beat them and try to take their banners away. The police would come and take the women, who were just standing on the sidewalk, and put them in prison.

These women were taken to Occoquan Prison where they would have to stay for sixty-days or could be bailed for ten dollars. The suffragist didn’t want anyone to bail the out because they said they shouldn’t even be in prison for a reason that isn’t true so why do they have to be bailed. While they were in jail they were fed horrible food and had to sew different types of clothing. During the sewing Alice Paul was sent to solitary confinement after she had thrown here own shoe to break a window so they could have cool air.

While in solitary confinement