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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.
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 ...
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 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.
Jessica Simpson's legs are made for walkin'. Simpson took to Instagram Dec. 14 to post a sultry photo of herself rocking a zebra print swimsuit from her self-titled fashion line.
The biggest publisher of "official" suffrage postcards was the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [42] NAWSA created their own publishing company by 1913. [43] Overall, around 4,500 different postcard designs with women's suffrage themes were created. [44] Postcards could have text, illustrations, or even photographs. [45]