Alice Paul

Alice Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and womens rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Along with Lucy Burns and others, Paul strategized the events, such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which led the successful campaign that resulted in its passage in 1920.

Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 at Paulsdale in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. She was the eldest of four children of William Mickle Paul and Tacie Paul , and a descendant of William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania. She grew up in the Quaker tradition of public service her ancestors included participants in the New Jersey Committee of Correspondence in the Revolutionary era and a state legislative leader in the 19th century. The Quakers believed that all people, including women, were equal in the sight of God. Alice first learned about woman suffrage from her mother, a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Paul would sometimes join her mother in attending suffragist meetings.

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