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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.
The most prominent leader of the National Woman's Party was Alice Paul, and its most notable event was the 1917–1919 Silent Sentinels vigil outside the gates of the White House. 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 ...
The party included members of the Congressional Union, and Alice Paul was in charge. [2] [4] A Campaign Committee was formed within the party with Anne Martin serving as chairman. [5] In 1917, the two organizations officially joined to form the National Woman's Party (NWP) and elected Alice Paul as their chairman.
Blatch merged her Women's Political Union into the CU. [97] That organization in turn became the basis for the National Woman's Party (NWP), which Paul formed in 1916. [98] Once again there were two competing national women's suffrage organizations, but the result this time was something like a division of labor.
After all of the turmoil of the past few years, Alice Paul announced a radical new plan for 1916—she wanted to organize a woman's political party. [48] Burns adamantly supported this plan and on June 5, 6 and 7, 1916 at the Blackstone Theater in Chicago, delegates and female voters met to organize the National Woman's Party (NWP). [49]
American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, took action in Glasgow that August.
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]
This film takes a look at the efforts of women’s rights activists, including Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), founders of the National Women’s Party, to get the ...