{"id":6871,"date":"2026-08-28T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:22:11","slug":"en-suffragists-were-arrested-in-1917-outside-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6871","title":{"rendered":"Ten Suffragists Were Arrested in 1917 outside the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10672 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/suffragists-e1744738807182.jpg\" alt=\"suffragists\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Ten women\u2019s rights campaigners were arrested in 1917 while picketing outside the White House<\/strong>. The suffragists had started picketing in January. One of the leaders, Alice Paul, began a hunger strike in jail. President Woodrow Wilson was so concerned for his administration that he finally supported Amendment Nineteen to the Constitution so that women had the right to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten women\u2019s rights campaigners were arrested in 1917 while picketing outside the White House. The suffragists had started picketing in January. One of the leaders, Alice Paul, began a hunger strike in jail. President Woodrow Wilson was so concerned for his administration that he finally supported Amendment Nineteen to the Constitution so that women had <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6871' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4404,1348,5816,1347,1350,683,1349],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4404","tag-alice-paul","tag-august-28","tag-suffragists","tag-ten-womens-rights-campaigners-arrested","tag-white-house","tag-woodrow-wilson","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30140,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/30140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}