As October 1917 was coming to an end, many Ocean County men were at Camp Dix preparing to become part of the great army being sent to France to “make the world safe for democracy.” At the same time a young Moorestown Quaker, Alice Paul, the head of the National Woman’s Party, was inside the Occoquan, Va., workhouse, sentenced to seven months for picketing the White House in an effort to convince President Woodrow Wilson to support a constitutional amendment giving all American women the right…
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