The Silent Sentinels were a group of women in favor of women’s suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party who protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency starting on January 10, 1917. The name Silent Sentinels was given to the women because of their silent protesting, six days a week for OVER TWO YEARS until June 4, 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed.
Throughout this two and a half year long vigil many of the nearly 2,000 women who picketed were harassed, arrested, and unjustly treated by local and US authorities, including the torture and abuse inflicted on them before and during the November 14, 1917 Night of Terror.[1]
Well guess what? It’s time to do it again. Hopefully not the Night of Terror part… but… we at EME say, whatever it takes.
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. We are facing civil and human rights rollbacks in the United States unlike anything we have seen in recent history. AND WOMEN STILL DON’T HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS. So, sometimes you just need to take a stand.