Biography
L. J. C. Daniels 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: November 10, 1917: 15 days; January 9, 1919: five days; February 1919: eight days in Charles Street Jail.
Updated Boston custody chronology: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. The dated stay is eight elapsed days. These dates follow the supplied record correction; earlier source notes are retained as historical background where accounts differ.
Updated Boston custody dates
Updated Boston custody chronology: arrested and incarcerated February 24, 1919; sentenced February 25; released March 4, 1919. The dated stay is eight elapsed days. These dates follow the supplied record correction; earlier source notes are retained as historical background where accounts differ.
Kenneally identifies the Vermont suffragist as Lucy J. C. Daniels and places her among the women jailed in Boston in February 1919. The Boston court was presided over by Judge Wilfred A. Bolster. The reported eight-day sentence does not establish eight days actually served.
James J. Kenneally, Historical Journal of Massachusetts 45(1), Winter 2017, printed pages 113–117.
