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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.
Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution.It draws from disciplines including psychology, ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology, and population genetics.
The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day. The percentage ...
American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, took action in Glasgow that August.
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage.After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment.
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2016 at 19:18:18 (UTC). Original – Alice Paul.After her PhD in Sociology she went on to get a law degree; she was a suffragette working in both Britain and America; she was one of the organisers of the first picket line at the White House - and was arrested for it, and endured brutal treatment as a result ...
[13] [16] According to historians A. Kennedy and K. D. Mary, Alice Paul felt that abortion was the "ultimate exploitation of women", [17] and was worried about female babies being aborted. [17] Kennedy and Mary also say that Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in the United States, [ 17 ] became a doctor because of her passionate ...
Alice Paul: United States: 1885: 1977: One of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment; founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of the Silent Sentinels and the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment: 1875–1939: Eva Perón: Argentina: 1919: 1952 [17] 1875–1939 ...