Doris Stevens

Overview

Doris Stevens born Omaha, NE October 26, 1888 (d. 1963). Chronicler of American suffragists; Executive Secretary of the Congressional Union for Womens Suffrage; arrested 1917, sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan Prison but pardoned after 3 days; arrested picketing Metropolitan Opera house, 1919.

Quotations

"Nothing in this world so ruffles the pompous dignity of a court as non-resistant defendants." (Jailed for Freedom, p. 212)