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Suffragist Dora Lewis of Philadelphia (center) leaves jail, where she participated in hunger strike to protest her arrest, August 1918.
Credit: Library of Congress
Pennsylvania suffragists came from a broad range of backgrounds. A founder of the National Women's Party, for which she chaired important committees, Mrs. Lawrence (Dora) Lewis was part of a prominent Philadelphia family. Jailed for participating in a pro-suffrage meeting in Washington D.C.'s Lafayette Square, she participated in a five-day hunger strike that attracted nation attention.