Biography
Sue Shelton White 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. A Tennessee lawyer and editor of The Suffragist, jailed in 1919 for a watchfire demonstration.
