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Alice Paul, 19th Amendment Champion and Women's Rights Activist

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eBook Connection: Alice Paul and the History of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

Alice Stokes Paul was born on January 11, 1885, in Moorestown, New Jersey.

Alice was the first-born child of William Mickle Paul and Tacie Parry Paul. Her father was a banker and a businessman who served as the president of the Burlington County Trust Company.

Alice had two brothers named William Jr. and Parry and a sister named Helen. Her family, being Hixsite Quakers, believed in: gender equality, education for women, and working for the betterment of society. Tacie often brought Alice to her women’s suffrage meetings.

Alice Paul earned degrees in law and social work while studying in London. She also joined the radical British suffrage movement.

After being jailed several times, she returned to the United States in 1910, determined to put new life into The National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

This old organization was still focused on state-by-state campaigns, while Alice preferred to lobby congress for a suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

She first worked within the NAWSA and then moved to working in her own rival organizations. Soon, she demonstrated her political savvy, stealing the spotlight at the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson with a huge suffrage parade. When Wilson was slow to aid her cause, Alice adopted the British strategy of holding the powerful party responsible.

The group that she was in, the Congressional Union, was campaigning against Democrats in the states in which women already had the right to vote. Alice led her group in tactics such as picketing the White House and other more militant tactics.

Alice Paul biography

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-paul

Alice Paul biography

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/alice-paul

Alice Paul Institute

https://www.alicepaul.org/about-alice-paul/

Lessons, Activities, and Field Trips for students to learn about Alice Paul

https://www.alicepaul.org/educators/

Alice Paul biography

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-alice-paul/

Alice Paul and Other Activists Sewing Stars on a Suffrage Flag, 1919