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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).
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.
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage.After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment.
Sitting with your legs nicely crossed is one thing, but this woman somehow managed to twist her legs around each other nearly three times! View post on imgur.com.
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 ...
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. [15]