Biography
Joy Young 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: July 4, 1917: three days.
Stevens describes Young as formerly an assistant on The Suffragist and later a National Woman’s Party organizer in several parts of the country. Her entry identifies her as married to Merrill Rogers; Matilda Young’s adjacent entry identifies Joy as her sister.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 371.
