THE CROTON CONNECTION, DORIS STEVENS: MORE CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA FROM CROTON'S OWN ROBERT SCOTT

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Robert Scott's "Chronicles of Croton's Bohemia" continues with a look at Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom: 

A militant feminist and leader in the women's suffrage movement, Doris Stevens was a keen eyewitness to the historic events that led up to the passage of the 19th Amendment. 

While the experiences were still fresh in her mind, she recorded them. 

Her 1920 book, Jailed for Freedom, captures in minute detail the cruelties suffragists endured during the fight to achieve the vote.  
  
More than 500 women were arrested during the demonstrations. Her book performs an invaluable service by recording in an appendix the names of the 168 women who actually served prison sentences, with a brief biography of each. Their names deserve to be remembered. Read the rest at http://www.notorc.blogspot.com/2013/02/doris-stevens-jailed-for-freedom_5362.html