Biography
Alice Cosu was a New Orleans suffragist and Silent Sentinel. Arrested in 1917 picketing the Wilson White House for women's right to vote and sentenced to the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, where she was Alice Paul's cellmate and was subjected to the brutality of the November 14, 1917 "Night of Terror." Cosu suffered a heart attack from the conditions of her imprisonment and never fully recovered. She continued NWP organizing in Louisiana through the 19th Amendment's ratification.
Photo credit
Alice Cosu, right-hand adult identified by the original newspaper caption (Mrs. E. J. Graham is on the left), October 4, 1914. Photographer unknown. Source: Tulane University exhibition, via Wikimedia Commons, which marks the image public domain because U.S. copyright has expired. Exact rectangular crop (220, 230, 333, 445) from the 353 by 1024 original; retained pixels are unchanged. The surviving newspaper reproduction is low resolution. Source image.
