Biography
Gertrude Crocker 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 expressly identifies three served sentences: thirty days for 1917 picketing, ten for the 1918 Lafayette Square meeting and five for the January 1919 watchfire. Separate missing 1917 and 1919 stays are added. Her existing August 15–20, 1918 interval and five-day counter are preserved because they conflict with the appendix’s ten-day description; the appendix alone does not justify changing those precise endpoints.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 357.
