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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.
Alice Stokes Paul (11 de janeiro de 1885 - 9 de julho de 1977) foi uma ativista norte-americana dos direitos da mulher, sufragista e feminista, e uma das principais líderes e estrategistas da campanha pela Décima Nona Emenda à Constituição dos EUA, que proíbe a discriminação sexual no direito de votar.
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Born on January 11, 1885 in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Paul was the oldest of four children of Tacie Parry and William Paul, a wealthy Quaker businessman. Pauls parents embraced gender equality, education for women, and working to improve society. Pauls mother, a suffragist, brought her daughter with her to womens suffrage meetings.
Paul attended Swarthmore College, a Quaker school cofounded by her grandfather, graduating with a biology degree in 1905. She attended the New York School of Philanthropy (now Columbia University) and received a Master of Arts degree in sociology in 1907. She then went to England to study social work, and after returning, earned a PhD from the Univ...
While in England, Paul met American Lucy Burns, and joining the womens suffrage efforts there, they learned militant protest tactics, including picketing and hunger strikes. Back in the United States, in 1912, Paul and Burns joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), with Paul leading the Washington, DC chapter. NAWSA primaril...
Borrowing from her British counterparts, Paul organized parades and pickets in support of suffrage. Her firstand the largestwas in Washington, DC, on March 3, 1913, the day before President-elect Woodrow Wilsons inauguration. Approximately eight thousand women marched with banners and floats down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White Ho...
Alice Paul was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the US, who advocated for and helped secure the 19th Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment. Learn about her life, achievements, and legacy through this biography and lesson plan.
9 de nov. de 2009 · Alice Paul was a Quaker suffragist who fought for women's right to vote and other feminist causes. She wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, protested at the White House, and founded the World Woman's Party.
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Alice Paul, American women’s suffrage leader and women’s rights activist who first proposed an equal rights amendment to the United States Constitution and who influenced the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. She was long considered the elder stateswoman of the feminist movement.
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Learn about Alice Paul, a feminist, suffragist and political strategist who fought for women's rights in the 20th century. Explore her early life, education, activism and legacy at the Alice Paul Institute.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Best Known For: Suffragist Alice Paul dedicated her life's work to women's rights and was a key figure in the push for the 19th Amendment. Industries U.S. Politics
