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You who pass coldly by when the police rush upon us, When they wrench away our banners, (Beautiful banners whose colors cry a demand for liberty) You who criticize or condemn…
Katharine Rolston Fisher was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1871. A suffrage activist and writer, she is thought to have been brought on as an assistant editor of The Suffragist in 1915. She was arrested for picketing for voting rights in 1917 and was sentenced to thirty days in the Occoquan workhouse. Rolston Fisher also worked as the recording secretary of the Washington, D.C., branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage; as a government clerk at the Suffragist House; and at the U.S. War Risk Bureau. She died in Westborough, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1950.
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Her life is a luminous banner borne ever ahead of her era, in lead of the forces of freedom, Where wrongs for justice call. High-hearted, far-sighted, she pressed with noble intrep…
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Evening at Occoquan. Rain pelts the workhouse roof. The prison matrons are sewing together for the Red Cross The women prisoners are going to bed in two long rows. Some of the suff…
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Prisoners are we, American citizens imprisoned For daring in the name of Democracy To protest against the continued denial…