| Appalled by the arrest of picketing suffragists at
the White House, James Ginns forbade his wife, Sallie, a member of
the National Woman's Party to picket there again. The next
time Sallie Ginns went to Washington, she was assigned to picket
the Capital. She did it--because she had only promised not
to picket the White House, and because she believed in the cause.
Born in Odessa, Russia, Sallie Topkis came to the United States at the age of two. Soon thereafter the family moved to Delaware, living mainly in Wilmington. Sallie Topkis married James N. Ginns in 1899. After a brief period in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, they settled in Wilmington. Sallie Ginns was involved in many communities activities in addition to suffrage, including the Red Cross, Americanization programs, prohibition, and education. Mrs. Ginns was a leader in the Jewish community, helping found Temple Beth Emeth, the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association, and the Wilmington chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women. |
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