Dr. Caroline Spencer. National Woman Party
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Summary: Formal portrait, half-length, Caroline E. Spencer, facing slightly left with head turned toward camera, wearing eyeglasses, hat, and coat, over lace-collared dress
Dr. Caroline E. Spencer, of Colorado Springs, Col., formerly of Philadelphia, was secretary of the Colorado branch of the NWP. She was a graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was arrested Oct. 20, 1917, while picketing the White House for suffrage and sentenced to 7 months imprisonment. She was arrested for participating in watchfire demonstration Jan. 13, 1919, and sentenced to 5 days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 368.
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