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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 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. It was inspired by the United Kingdom's suffragette movement, which Paul and Burns had taken part in. Their continuous campaigning drew attention ...
History of Woman Suffrage is a book that was produced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922, it is a history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States.
December 10, 1923 – Senator Charles Curtis introduces the first draft of the ERA to the United States Congress.The original text written by suffragist Alice Paul reads: Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
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
The Woman Suffrage Procession was featured in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels, which chronicles the strategies of Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and the National Woman's Party as they lobby and demonstrate for the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would assure voting rights for all American women.
On January 1, 2021, NWP ceased operations as an independent non-profit organization and assigned its trademark rights and other uses of the party's name to the educational non-profit, Alice Paul Institute. [1] The Alice Paul Institute has invited three members of NWP Board of Directors to join their board and in the near future will create a ...
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