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Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1910–1928. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-5022-2. Stevens, Doris (1920). Jailed for Freedom. New York: Boni and Liveright. Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, ed. (1995). One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement. Troutdale, OR ...
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]
American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, took action in Glasgow that August.
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On January 1, 2021, NWP ceased operations as an independent non-profit organization and assigned its trademark rights and other uses of the party's name to the educational non-profit, Alice Paul Institute. [1] The Alice Paul Institute has invited three members of NWP Board of Directors to join their board and in the near future will create a ...
The new book from bestselling author Alice Paul Tapper, daughter of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, was inspired by a near-fatal health emergency. “Use Your Voice,” with illustrations by Fanny Liem ...
The Pope urges women to make donations for the crusaders instead of joining a crusade. [422] 1202. Spring. Reginald of Dampierre and 300 crusaders land at Acre. They leave for Antioch after Henry I prohibits them from breaking the truce. [423] [424] 1203. May. The leaders of the Fourth Crusade decide to attack Constantinople. [425] 1204. May.