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    Paul, Alice

    BORN: January 11, 1885 • Moorestown, New Jersey

    DIED: July 9, 1977 • Moorestown, New Jersey

    American suffragist

    Voting rights activist Alice Paul was an important figure in the struggle to win support for the 1920 constitutional amendment that gave American women the right to vote nationally. Paul helped turn the movement into a highly public battle with some dramatic events, including an eighteen-month-long protest on the sidewalk outside of the White House.

    "We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote."

    Quaker roots

    Alice Stokes Paul grew up on a large family farm in Burlington County, New Jersey. Born on January 11, 1885, the first of four children in her family, she was raised in a modestly wealthy and progressive-minded home. Her father was a bank president, and her mother, Tacie Parry Paul, was one of the first women to study at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. The school was fou

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    Alice Paul’s Crusade: How A Young Quaker from New Jersey Changed the National Conversation and Got the Vote

    Author Biography

    Mary Walton is the author of A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot. She has written four previous works of nonfiction. For twenty-two years, until 1994, she was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she wrote scores of articles as a staff writer for the Sunday Inquirer magazine. She has also written for the New York Times, Washingtonian, the Washington Monthly, the American Journalism Review, and PBS. After graduation from Harvard University, and a turn at social work and community organizing, Walton began her journalism career as a reporter at the Charleston [WV] Gazette. She lives in Philadelphia, PA, with her husband Charles Layton. She was interviewed for a two-part PBS documentary titled "The Vote" that aired in July.


    Footnotes

    [1] Suffragists Oral History Project, Oral History Collection at the

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    Alice Paul, Suffrage Militant

    Alice Stokes Paul (1885−1977) was one of the leading feminists of the early twentieth century, a person who brought the women’s suffrage movement into the national spotlight. övergång of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment or the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was due in large part to Paul’s visionär leadership, courage, determination, brilliant organizational skills, and laser-like focus on planning and execution. A tireless, unrelenting, uncompromising, and uncomplaining feminist fighter, she fervently believed that there could be no gender equality until and unless the nation was committed to women’s suffrage and to an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

    The history of suffrage in the United States has always been complicated and contested. Before the ratification of the Constitution, propertied women could vote in two colonies, New Jersey and Massachusetts. But after the ratification of the Constitution, eligibility to vote in