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Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
At the 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Convention, Carrie Chapman Catt gives a speech calling for support for women's suffrage ("Let Mother Vote"). Alice Paul , exhausted by NAWSA's slow progress, proposes a march on Washington, D.C. on the day of President Woodrow Wilson 's inauguration, to pressure him to support a ...
Members of the CUWS holding brushes in front of a large billboard, 1914 Meeting at Coffee House, New York, 1915. The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was an American organization formed in 1913 led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns [1] to campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage.
American suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns spearheaded a drive to adopt a national strategy for women's suffrage in the National American Woman Suffrage Association. [ 1 ] : 362 [ 2 ] Paul and Burns had seen first-hand the effectiveness of militant activism while working for Emmeline Pankhurst in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU ...
American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, took action in Glasgow that August. Model of suffragette’s 1909 rooftop protest donated to library where it happened Skip to main content
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women, campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [35] Emily Thornton Charles (1845–1895) – poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper ...
Alice Walton is the newest member of the $100 billion club. The Walmart heiress' net worth has soared by $30.1 billion this year to hit $100 billion at Tuesday's market close, per the Bloomberg ...