Alice Paul

1885 – 1977

Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist and women's rights activist who served as a principal strategist of the campaign that secured passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, prohibiting sex discrimination in voting. She organized the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington and the Silent Sentinels picket of the Wilson White House, enduring imprisonment, beatings, and force-feeding during a hunger strike to draw national attention to the cause. After 1920 she drafted the Equal Rights Amendment, which she championed for the rest of her life.

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