Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977)--suffragist, feminist, women's rights advocate, ERA

[niyad]

(I just realized that she died only months before the IWY conference in houston in november that year)



Alice Paul



Alice Paul, circa 1915
Born January 11, 1885
Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey
Died July 9, 1977 (aged 92)
Moorestown, New Jersey
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Swarthmore College
American University
Occupation Suffragist
Political party National Women's Party
Religion Quakerism
Parent(s) William Mickle Paul I (1850-1902)
Tacie Parry
Relatives Siblings: Willam, Helen, and Parry

Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Along with Lucy Burns and others, Alice strategized the events, such as the Silent Sentinels, which led the successful campaign that resulted in its passage in 1920.[1]

After 1920 Alice spent a half century as leader of the National Woman's Party, which fought for her Equal Rights Amendment to secure constitutional equality for women. She won a large degree of success with the inclusion of women as a group protected against discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She insisted that her National Woman's Party focus on the legal status of all women and resisted calls to address issues like birth control.

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1913 Woman's Suffrage Parade

One of Alice's first big projects was organizing the 1913 Woman's Suffrage Parade in Washington the day before President Wilson's inauguration. Alice was determined to put pressure on Wilson, because the President would have the most influence over Congress. Alice assigned volunteers to contact suffragists around the nation to ask supporters to come march in Washington. In just weeks, Alice had organized eight-thousand marchers representing multiple states in the country. Multiple bands, banners, squadrons, chariots, and floats were displayed in the parade representing all women’s lives gathered at the nation’s capital. The lead banner in the parade said, "We Demand an Amendment to the United States Constitution Enfranchising the Women of the Country."[10] Over half a million people came to view the parade; with insufficient police protection, the situation soon devolved into a near-riot, with onlookers pressing so close to the women that they were unable to proceed. The Massachusetts and Pennsylvania national guards stepped in; eventually, students from the Maryland Agricultural College provided a human barrier to help the women pass. The incident mobilized public dialogue about the police response to the women's demonstration, producing greater awareness and sympathy for NAWSA.[7][10]


Cover to the program for the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade which Alice Paul organized

After the parade, the NAWSA's focus was lobbying for a constitutional amendment to secure the right to vote for women. Such an amendment had originally been sought by suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who, as leaders of the NWSA, fought for a federal amendment to the constitution securing women's suffrage until the 1890 formation of NAWSA, which campaigned for the vote on a state-by-state basis.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul

[femmocrat]

1. K & R

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. What a remarkable woman.

and yet...not a peep in our history books.

[niyad]

3. when I was in school, about the only woman we ever saw mentioned was betsy ross.

In noting that monday is mlk day, and thinking about alice paul, one notices that there are NO women's holidays in this country.