{"id":10510,"date":"2011-06-28T06:47:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:04:55","slug":"featured-doris-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-doris-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: DORIS STEVENS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doris Stevens (1892 \u20131963) was an American Teacher, social worker and political suffragist.<\/span> She organized and spoke for\u00a0 suffrage campaigns and acted as an executive committee member of the N.W.P (National Women’s Party). Arrested for picketing she was sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan workhouse, and later pardoned by President Woodrow Wilson. This led to the quintessential insider account of the imprisonment of N.W.P activists in Jailed for Freedom<\/em>. Through descriptions of struggles and setbacks, Stevens tells the epic tale of the Women who fought to win the passage of the 19th Amendment.<\/p>\n

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\nINSCRIBED BY DORIS STEVENS\u00a0 “To Lesley – who is a living witness to the independent woman’s cross. With Love and admiration, Doris”. <\/span>Hard bound, with dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt title to spine edge. frontispiece photograph of Alice Paul. Illustrated with b&w palates. “New edition” circa early 1930’s. Wear, chipping and some minor damp staining to dust jacket. Purple boards show some minor wear, otherwise very good. A very scarce copy, inscribed in jacket.<\/p>\n

Book Seller Inventory #<\/strong> 25264
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SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n

Jailed For Freedom<\/strong>
\nStevens, Doris<\/em><\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> Liverlight
\nPublication Date:<\/strong> Circa early 1930’s (copyright 1920)
\nBinding: <\/strong> Hardcover
\nBook Condition: <\/strong> Very Good
\nDust Jacket Condition: <\/strong> Good
\nSigned:<\/strong> Inscribed by Author
\nEdition: <\/strong> First printing of the (2nd) New Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doris Stevens (1892 \u20131963) was an American Teacher, social worker and political suffragist. She organized and spoke for\u00a0 suffrage campaigns and acted as an executive committee member of the N.W.P (National Women’s Party). Arrested for picketing she was sentenced to 60 days in Occoquan workhouse, and later pardoned by President Woodrow Wilson. This led to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15047,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/15047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}