Biography
Josephine Collins was a member of the National Woman's Party and one of the "Silent Sentinels" imprisoned during the 1917-1919 campaign to picket the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. Doris Stevens recorded her term as: February 1919: eight days in Charles Street Jail.
James J. Kenneally’s reconstruction identifies Josephine Collins among the February 1919 Boston suffrage prisoners whose proceedings were heard by Municipal Court Chief Justice Wilfred A. Bolster. The eight-day sentence described in this episode was nominal; individual releases after fines were paid must not be replaced with an assumed eight days served.
Kenneally, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 45(1), Winter 2017, printed pages 113–118.
Stevens describes Collins as the owner and manager of the village store at Framingham Center. Some customers opposed her militant suffrage activity, according to the entry, which also identifies her as an early National Woman’s Party member.
