On this day in ...... 1892 (120 years ago), Doris Stevens (right) was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Following her graduation from Oberlin College, she was a teacher, social worker, and Midwest regional organizer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. By 1914, she was a full-time organizer for the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage; her cohorts included 4 IntLawGrrls foremothers, Lucy Burns, Crystal Eastman, Helen Keller, and Alice Paul. (photo credit) Stevens served 2 months in prison for picketing the White House, and recounted her experience in a book, Jailed for Freedom (2008). As our colleague Ed Gordon wrote at page 153 of a recent Green Bag article, Stevens was a friend of artist Jeannette Scott and so knew the artist's brother – and as a result, Stevens was instrumental in the visage of international lawyer James Brown Scott becoming the likeness of Vitoria (whose actual looks are unknown) in a portrait.
(Prior October 26 posts are here, here, here, here, and here.)
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