BEPA has a jail door pin. It belonged to artist Betsy Graves Reyneau, who passed it on to Pauli Murray when she died. We made a zine about it for middle-grade students #HATM nowandhere.org/projects/sis...
Explore the women’s rights movement through a 1917 pin given to suffragists arrested for picketing the White House.
"Jailed for freedom" - they later toured the country from Charleston to NY on a special train named the “Democracy Limited,” speaking to crowds while wearing their prison uniforms. They wore special jaildoor pins as a badge of honor. #hatm #suffs
