Elizabeth Stuyvesant, State Organizer, National Woman's Party, her great-grandfather died in the Revolution, her grandfather in the Civil War, and her brother is fighting in France. Five years of social work in New York City brought her to the determination to join the fight for woman's political liberty--Suffrage.
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Summary: Head portrait of Elizabeth Stuyvesant, with ribbon in her hair. Shoulders are sketched in with pencil.
Elizabeth Stuyvesant of New York City, formerly of Cincinnati, was a professional dancer. She was active in settlement work and in the campaign for birth control. On July 4, 1917, she was arrested while picketing the White House for suffrage and sentenced to three days in District Jail. Source: Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), 368.
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01/01/1914
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