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I Want to Go to Jail
An original one-act play by Pamela Swing and Elizabeth Dabanka
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  • The Play
    • Synopsis
    • About the Playwrights
    • Writing a Suffrage Play in the 21st Century
    • Cast of Characters
    • Previous Performances
    • Performance Notes
  • State House Picketing
    • Background History
    • Suffragists Arrested
    • Historical Sites
  • Women’s Suffrage
    • The 19th Amendment
    • Centennial
    • Links & Resources
    • Suffrage Definition
  • My Suffragist Grandmother
    • Who Was Betty Gram Swing?
    • Memories of My Grandmother

Links & Resources

Replica of a tea cup from a set designed by Alva Belmont, suffragist with the National Women’s Party

Detailed Chronology of Suffrage Movement from Library of Congress

Betty Gram Swing’s papers at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Women’s Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts

Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States

We Did it For You: Women’s Journey Through History

The Suffrage Centennial Display Panel Project

Boston Women’s Heritage Trail 

Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center

Contact Information

Pam Swing: pam@iwanttogotojail.com

Unless otherwise noted, photographs on this website are from the Swing private collection. They will become part of Betty Gram Swing’s archive at the Schlesinger at a future date. If you wish to use any of these photographs, please contact Pam Swing to discuss.

Perusal Scenes and Script

You may request perusal scenes of “I Want to Go to Jail” here. Should you decide to present the play, learn more about the suggested donation here.

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