Biography
Hilda Blumberg 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 distinguishes an earlier September 1917 picketing imprisonment carrying a thirty-day sentence at Occoquan from the November 10 arrest carrying fifteen days. The earlier episode is missing from the case ledger and is recorded with unknown endpoints and no nominal-as-served counter. The existing November interval is preserved.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 355.
