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Margaret Oakes

Released
Gender:Female
Era:1910s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Women's suffrage
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Biography

Margaret Oakes 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. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: August 1918: ten days.

Stevens records an imposed ten-day August 1918 sentence, not an explicit completed actual term. The documented-day override merely repeats the nominal term without separate support in this source or the included raw narrative and is removed. Existing dates are preserved.

Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, PDF pages 13.

Case

Arrested: August 1918
Sentence: August 1918: ten days.