Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Matilda Young, facing slightly to the right with head turned slightly to the left, standing with right hand in pocket and left hand on waist with coat or shawl draped across left arm, wearing wide-brimmed hat with embroidered cloth around band.
Matilda Young of Washington, D.C., was the sister of NWP activist Joy Young. She worked full-time for suffrage for several years. She was the youngest NWP picket arrested (19 years old when she served her first prison term). She was arrested for picketing Nov. 10, 1917, sentenced to 15 days in District Jail, and served two terms in jail in January 1919; five days for watchfire demonstrations and three days for applauding suffrage prisoners in court.
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