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Any suffragists found guilty would refuse the option of a fine so that they would be sent to jail. Once numbers exceeded the capacity of the local jailhouse, convicted women were sent to the Occoquan Workhouse.

At Occoquan, some began hunger strikes and were force fed.

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In November 1917, the supervisor of the workhouse ordered the guards to brutalise the suffragists. They dragged, beat, choked and pinched the women. One was left with her hands chained over her head all night. Another was slammed into the edge of her bed so hard her cellmate thought she was dead.

Media reports of the brutalisation created public pressure, and by the end of November all the suffragist women had been released.
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#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.

This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day. They were charged with “blocking traffic” on the wide pavement of Pennsylvania Avenue.

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#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1992, voters in Illinois, USA, make Carol Moseley Braun the first African-American US Senator. She takes up office in 1993.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Oct 2017, Alyssa Milano suggests people use Tarana Burke's phrase "Me too" if they have ever been sexually harassed or assaulted. It becomes a worldwide phrase to highlight harassment and abuse.

#OnThisDay, 7 Sept 2009, Lubna Ahmed Hussein is sent to jail for a month in Sudan after refusing to pay a fine.

She'd been found guilty of “dressing indecently” by... wearing trousers.

#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 9 Aug 1956, more than 20,000 women of all races march through Pretoria, South Africa, to petition against the law forcing women to carry passes in order to move about.

Since 1994, a public holiday on 9 Aug marks National Women's Day in South Africa.

Read more about the women who led the movement here: https://issuu.com/topcomedia/docs/public_sector_leaders_august_2021/s/13071366

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AfricanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 27 July 2015, film-maker and activist Bree Newsome scaled a 30ft flagpole to remove the Confederate battle flag from South Carolina state grounds.

As well as leading to the permanent removal of the flag, her action ignited a wider debate about the impact of Confederate monuments in the States.

#OnThisDay, 14 Jun 1939, Ethel Waters stars in The Ethel Waters Show on NBC, becoming the first black person to have their own show on US TV.

Photo is from her radio show.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment. In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.

We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.

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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory

#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.

Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.

Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.

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#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1913, thousands of women march through Washington DC in the Suffrage Parade. They are led by Inez Milholland, a lawyer, on a white horse.

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.

Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

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