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Camilla Whitcomb (1860 - 1949) was an American artist and suffrage activist.
Biography
[edit]Camilla Gertrude Whitcomb was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she lived and worked throughout her entire life.
She joined the women's suffrage movement in the 1880s, becoming a prominent member of the National Woman's Party and the Worcester Equal Franchise Club.[1] In 1917, she served a prison term at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia alongside other militant suffragists who had picketed the White House.[2] She was arrested again in 1919 after participating in a protest on the Boston Common on February 24.[3]
Notes
[edit]Also see: "Camilla G. Whitcomb: Women's Rights Leader in Bay State, Aged 89," Boston Globe Sept. 16, 1949.
References
[edit]- ^ Dublin, Thomas; Sklar, Kathryn, eds. (2015). "Camilla Whitcomb". Online Biographical Dictionary of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920. Alexandria, VA: Alexandria Street Press. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^ Stevens, Doris (1920). Jailed for Freedom. Boni and Liveright. p. 192.
- ^ Women's Suffrage Celebration Coalition. ""The Boston Protest of 1919"". Retrieved 28 March 2020.