"Resolution Adopted by Suffragettes of Fifth Congressional District of Michigan, Favoring Rankin Bill for Investigation Concerning Treatment of Suffragettes at Occoquan,â 4/19/1918Â
File Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents which were Presented, Read, or Tabled during the 65th Congress, 1917 - 1919. Series: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled, 1789 - 1966. Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015.
This resolution was sent to the Senate following a suffrage meeting in the Fifth Congressional District of Michigan. The letter asks the Michigan Senators to support a bill introduced by Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin calling for an investigation "concerning the brutal treatment of the suffragists" imprisoned in the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia.
