Biography
Virginia Arnold was a North Carolina teacher, National Woman's Party organizer and one of the first six suffragists imprisoned in the White House campaign, serving three days in the District of Columbia Jail in June 1917. She was a frequent banner-bearer, including the 'Kaiser Wilson' banner of August 1917.
Doris Stevens's suffrage-prisoner appendix explicitly records Virginia Arnold as having served three days in June 1917 among the first pickets sentenced. This is an expressly reported served duration, rather than the two-day arithmetic difference between the existing calendar endpoints. The endpoints are preserved.
Stevens describes Arnold as a schoolteacher and student at George Washington and Columbia universities who later worked in Washington as an organizer and executive secretary of the National Woman’s Party.
The June 27, 1917 Washington report individually lists Virginia Arnold among six suffrage picketers convicted in police court following White House banner demonstrations. It reports an alternative of a $25 fine or three days and says the women were consulting counsel about their choice. This contemporary report establishes the announced alternatives, rather than independently proving three days actually served. Its $25 figure is preserved as reported without replacing different fine amounts or actual custody recorded from other sources.
