The Silent Sentinel Award is an award honoring those who have been instrumental in advocating for women’s equality in the United States of America.

The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Committee honored this year’s recipient, historian Ann Gordon, at a special event held from 7-10 pm on May 30th, at the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority’s 95-acre, Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, Va. Proceeds from this event will support the construction of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, which will be dedicated to the suffragists who were harshly imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Va., in 1917 after picketing the White House in support of women’s suffrage.