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Mar 4, 2019 · In November 1917, 33 suffragists who picketed the White House were arrested and brutally beaten at Occoquan Workhouse. They endured the Night of Terror, a turning point in the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights.
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Experience the largest and scariest haunted attraction in New Jersey, featuring a haunted paintball hayride and other terrifying attractions. Night of Terror is designed by The Village of Darkness and not for the faint of heart.
Night of Terror is a 1933 American pre-Code horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, and starring Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, and Tully Marshall. Despite receiving top billing, Bela Lugosi has a relatively small part. The film is also known as He Lived to Kill and Terror in the Night.
“The Night of Terror” Women arrested in mid-November 1917, including Cora Week, were sent to Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, on November 14, where they encountered unprecedented psychological intimidation and physical violence.
A seance at a spooky mansion turns into a murder mystery as a knife-wielding maniac stalks the heirs to a family fortune. Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford and Sally Blane star in this low-budget but entertaining film with a twist ending.
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- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Benjamin Stoloff
- 1933-04-24
On the night of November 14, 1917, known as the "Night of Terror", the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse, W.H. Whittaker, ordered the nearly forty guards to brutalize the suffragists. They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head, then left her there for the night.
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Learn how suffragists were beaten and abused at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 for picketing the White House. Listen to an eyewitness account and see a jail door pin from the prison.
