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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: October 12, 2013
Caption: Hunger Strikers
Additional Description: Rose Winslow organized a hunger strike at the Occoquan Workhouse. The strikers were brutally force-fed three times a day.
"All the officers here know we are making this hunger strike that women fighting for liberty may be considered political prisoners; we have told them. God knows we don't want other women ever to have to do this again." -- Rose Winslow, November 1917. Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: January 19, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p264719
File Size: 1.637 Megabytes

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