Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul 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. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns and others, strategized events such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in August 1920.
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- Born in
- Mount Laurel
- Educated at
- Woodbrooke Quaker Study CentreGeorgetown University Law CenterSwarthmore College
- Awards
- 🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame🏆 Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame🏆 New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame🏆 New Jersey Hall of Fame🏆 Hunger Strike Medal
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1885
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Birth1977
Died
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