Pennsylvania Day on the Picket Line

Every day, women marched in a line from Congressional Union headquarters to the White House to assume their stations as “silent sentinels.” To maintain press interest, women representing specific states, organizations, and occupations were scheduled on different days. Nearly 2,000 suffragists traveled from 30 states to take shifts. On January 24, 1917, a group of twenty suffragists, organized by Ella Riegel of Bryn Mawr, left Philadelphia and arrived by noon for “Pennsylvania Day.” On February 3, 1917, “College Day” brought women from several colleges and universities to join the picket line.