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Betty Gram

Released
Date of birth:16. 03. 1893
Date of death:01. 09. 1969
Age:76† Deceased
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Time Imprisoned:
14 Days
Support
Women's suffrage
Betty Gram

Biography

Betty Gram was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Held at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia or the District of Columbia Jail, many of these prisoners joined hunger strikes and were force-fed.

Stevens individually identifies this woman as a picketer and reports her imposed sentence. These details supply the missing case label without altering actual-custody dates or counters.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 7.

Case

Charges: Picketing for woman suffrage
Arrested: Nov 10, 1917
Incarcerated: Nov 14, 1917
Released: Nov 28, 1917
Sentence: Thirty days at Occoquan imposed after the November 10, 1917 picket. The appendix also records a separate eight-day sentence for the February 1919 Boston demonstration; neither nominal term establishes a complete actual total.
Judge: Alexander Mullowney
Plead: Not guilty (November 12, 1917)