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Alice Paul was the architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements on behalf of women in the 20th century. Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul was born on January 11, 1885 to Quaker parents in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. While studying and working as a case worker for a London settlement house she served her apprenticeship for what became her vocation: the struggle for women’s rights. Her education as an activist was acquired through a series of arrests, imprisonments, hunger strikes, and forced feedings. Paul enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania on her return to the United States in 1910. There she earned a Ph.D. in sociology and began to situate herself in the American suffrage movement. Working first within the National American Woman Suffrage Association and in 1914 she cofounded the Congressional Union. In 1916, she founded the National Woman’s party. Ultimately her tactics, as well as persuasion from Carrie Chapman Catt, induced President Woodrow Wilson to make a federal suffrage amendment a war measures priority, a stand he had previously refused to take. Paul was a pivotal force in the passage and ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1923, Paul proposed an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Overcoming the opposition of women’s organizations who feared the loss of protective legislation, she helped gain acceptance of an era plank in the platforms of both major political parties in 1944. She continued to work actively out of the National Woman’s party headquarters in Washington, D.C., until failing health forced her to relocate to the Connecticut countryside in 1972. Even then she continued to provide inspiration to new generations of women’s rights activists until her death in 1977. Her life symbolizes the long struggle for justice in the United States and around the world. Her vision was the ordinary notion that women and men should be equal partners in society. #herstory #timeless #wcw

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