L2L Picketing the President (ft. Mary Nolan Brown)

Picketing the President

Mary Nolan Brown

As the Great War ended and a pandemic raged, women known as the Silent Sentinels picketed the White House in favor of suffrage. Over the course of two and a half years, many of these nearly two thousand women were harassed, arrested, and unjustly treated by authorities, including being subjected to torture and abuse and inhospitable jailhouse conditions. This week, Leigh Rich and P. T. Bridgeport chat with Mary Nolan Brown, great-granddaughter of a picketer and author of a young adult novel about her relative’s firsthand experiences.