Camilla Whitcomb (1860 - 1949) was an American artist and suffrage activist.
Biography
editCamilla 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
editAlso 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.