Lillian R. Thompson (b. 1874) of New Brunswick. She was re-elected treasurer, representing 5,000
African American women who were “working for the uplift of the race.”
Rice lived long enough to see the suffrage victory, but died of pneumonia in November
1920. The NJFCWC founded a scholarship in her memory. The Ella M. Rice Club, composed of
prominent women of New Brunswick, was established in her honor in 1923. Two of her sons
days later, picketing continued through the summer, with women occasionally
roughed up by the crowd who considered them unpatriotic in wartime. In
1959) of Montclair joined the group, and was among those arrested and taken
procedure where the prisoner was tied down, and a tube was forced through
released in late November.
Occoquan Workhouse, 1917. Alison T.
Hopkins of Morristown, center
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