Biography
Rose Fishstein was a Philadelphia businesswoman and a member of the National Woman's Party, one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. She was born in Russia, educated in New York and Philadelphia, and was a student at Temple University. She was arrested at a watchfire demonstration in February 1919 and sentenced to five days in the District Jail.
She was the sister-in-law of Rose Gratz Fishstein, who is also in this archive. Doris Stevens lists the two women as separate entries in Appendix 4 of Jailed for Freedom, one immediately after the other, and the shared forename and surname are why this record was missing: every automatic check for Rose Fishstein found Rose Gratz Fishstein and stopped.
Stevens distinguishes the younger Rose Fishstein from her sister-in-law Rose Gratz Fishstein. This entry records five days imposed after a February 1919 watchfire arrest, without an explicit actual-service or discharge report. Their identities remain separate. The stored nominal-as-actual day override is removed; no unsupported admission or release endpoint is substituted.
