Biography
Matilda 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: November 10, 1917: 15 days; January 1919: one five-day and one three-day term.
The suffrage-prisoner appendix distinguishes Matilda Young's November 1917 picketing sentence from two terms actually served in January 1919: five days for a watchfire demonstration and three days for applauding suffrage prisoners in court. The latter terms have no verified individual admission or release dates and are not assigned calculated calendar endpoints.
Stevens identifies Matilda Young as Joy Young’s sister and describes her sustained suffrage work. The entry says she was nineteen when she first served a prison term; this reported age is not converted into a birth date.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 371.
