the Anti-Tuberculosis Society. In 1915, she was one of the founders of the National Women's Party, Minnesota branch, and served as its chair through 1920. Colvin became one of the leading women's rights advocates in Minnesota and worked as a national organizer, traveling to other areas, like Kansas and Washington, D. C. to press for women's suffrage and birth control, which at the time was illegal in Minnesota. Simultaneously during World War I, she served as a Red Cross and army nurse. Given the rank of major, she was the Acting Surgical Chief of Nursing at Fort McHenry. As a member of the Silent Sentinels she participated in the White House pickets in 1918 and in January 1919 was arrested twice. Colvin described her imprisonment as both fearful and revolting, but after the first term, she participated in a hunger strike, which led to her second sentence. When the war ended, Colvin joined both the disarmament movement and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), serving on the board of the Minneapolis Branch of the WILPF. Once women secured the vote, she joined the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party, working to educate people on the issues and press for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1933, she was elected as the national president of the National Women's Party and turned her sights toward issues of equal pay. She was elected to serve on the state Board of Education in 1935 and continued to press for nursing reforms and pay equality for both American and Canadian nurses through the end of the 1930s. In 1944, she published her autobiography, A Rebel in Thought, relating her experiences in the suffrage movement. Death and legacy Colvin died on April 22, 1949 in Ramsey, Minnesota. She has been featured as one of the biographies of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association and is honored on the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial. References Bibliography 1865 births 1949 deaths People from Greene County, Alabama Writers from Alabama Writers from Saint Paul, Minnesota Military personnel from Alabama American suffragists Johns Hopkins School of Nursing alumni American women nurses 20th-century American women writers American autobiographers American women non-fiction writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers Women autobiographers Equal Rights Amendment activists National Woman's Party activists