Jailed for Freedom (Polis & Praxis Classics)

"A powerful true story of protest, prison, and political transformation-told by one of the women who lived it."

Jailed for Freedom is Doris Stevens' firsthand account of the suffragists who dared to defy power-and paid the price for it. Arrested for picketing the White House, these women faced brutal conditions, hunger strikes, and public scorn to demand what democracy had long denied: the vote.

Written in 1920 by a leading member of the National Woman's Party, this landmark narrative capture...