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Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns ...
Silent Sentinels picketing the White House. The Silent Sentinels, also known as the Sentinels of Liberty, [1] [2] [3] were a group of over 2,000 women in favor of women's suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, who nonviolently protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson's presidency starting on January 10, 1917. [4]
A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN 978-0-230-61175-7; Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill (1993). New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507583-8.
American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, took action in Glasgow that August.
The ERA was first proposed by suffragettes Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and was originally introduced by Republican congressmen. It was then subsequently reintroduced in every Congressional ...
Canada's first-wave of feminism became apparent in the late 19th century into the early 20th. The build up of women's movements started as consciously raising awareness, then turned into study groups, and resulted into taking action by forming committees. The premise of the movement began around education issues.
Meeting at Coffee House, New York, 1915. 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.
Woman Suffrage Procession. / 38.89500°N 77.02778°W / 38.89500; -77.02778. The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. [citation needed] The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul ...