Alice Paul's Push for Equal Rights for Woman

I was born on 11th January 1885 in Moorstown, New Jersey. I grew up in Quaker and studied at Swarthmore College. When I moved to England, I began fighting for the equal rights of women in society (Alice Paul Biography). I am very politically aggressive and I hope to take an adventurous strategy to support what I think is right. As I worked hard to exercise my voting rights, I was arrested in the UK many times and had to declare a sentence in prison. In 1910, I returned to America.

DK: Alice Paul grew up in Quaker like two other excellent ballot leaders, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony. Quakers think equality between men and women, and they support women's voting rights. Paul, after attending Swarthmore University (Quaker Association), recognized extensive opposition to women's right to suffrage in the world, until reaching the UK as a young woman. In the UK, she joined the radical women's social political alliance led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel. The WSPU organized a large and spectacular parade, and they also used conflict tactics to send them to prison. Alice Paul seems to like it all. She talked about adventure, including painful forced feeding and mother's letters that endured prison during the hunger strike. This is a big change. She was fearless and showed that she has the will to put in everything she has for battle for voting. )

The paper by Alice Paul documents Paul's work at the National Women's Party and the World Women's Party, and her ongoing efforts towards equality rights amendment. When her estate was auctioned in 1987, it was purchased by the Alice Paul Centennial Foundation on behalf of the library. The rest is from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC and from Alice Paul University, a Brick Farmer in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, where Paul was born.

After winning the vote in 1920, Alice Paul mobilized her female party for constitutional amendment to ensure complete equality before the law ("Equal Rights Amendment" or ERA). She devoted the rest of his life to this goal. She has never been married, and the most important thing for her is Elsie Hill, a woman who shares her political work with her, especially her longtime friends and colleagues. In fact, ERA was approved by Congress in 1972, but failed to obtain the necessary number of state approvals by the deadline of 1982 (due to the reactive campaign). Fortunately, Alice Paul who died in 1977 did not witness this failure.