<P> The Silent Sentinels were a group of women in favor of women's suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party . They protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson's presidency starting on January 10, 1917 . The Silent Sentinels started to protest after a meeting with the president on January 9, 1917, during which he told the women to "concert public opinion on behalf of women's suffrage ." The women protested for six days a week until June 4, 1919 when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed both by the House of Representatives and the Senate . </P> <P> The name Silent Sentinels was given to the women because of their silent protesting . Using silence as a form of protest was a new principled, strategic, and rhetorical strategy within the national suffrage movement and within their own assortment of protest strategies . </P>

Where did the silent sentinels picket in support of women's right to vote