Timeline of Important Events in Alice Paul’s Life January 11, 1885 Alice Paul is born. May 13, 1901 Alice graduates at the age of only 16 and is first in her class. October 1910 Alice joins the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). February 1913 Alice and Lucy Burns helped found the Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage but after not getting enough help from NAWSA financially and having different ideals as well, they decide to leave the organization. March 3, 1913 Alice organizes a suffragist parade the day before President Wilson’s inauguration. A few people were arrested and there was police violence as well. January 15, 1915 The first bill of suffrage was brought to the House of Representatives and
She helped found Swarthmore College, a coeducational Quaker institution, in 1864. Despite increasingly suffering from dyspepsia, she was elected head of the American Equal Rights Association. Not long after, the group broke into two different groups: the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. The National Woman Suffrage Association was led by Mott, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, while the American Woman Suffrage Association was led by Lucy Stone, Julia Howe, and other women.
Now I am not going to fight anymore”. Lucy did everything she can, and know she pass the power to our hands. In 1914, dissatisfied with the direction and leadership of the NAWSA Lucy Burns and Alice Paul led a Group of women out of the NAWSA and formed a new organization; the Congressional Union(CU) . Lucy and Alice wanted to give women the right to vote and the wanted to do it fast, the NAWSA and Lucy and Alice had different opinion so they took action to their
Alice graduated at the top of her high school class (Moorestown Friends School), and then attended Swarthmore, a college co-founded in 1864 by her grandfather where she graduated in 1905 with a degree in biology. After attending a summer session at the New York
Anthony knew that women should have been given this right long ago, which prompted her and the others to begin a woman suffrage movement. Anthony and her good friend Stanton founded the American Equal Rights Association in 1866. However, the movement split and rejoined in 1887, creating the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony went to Congress and pleaded with them to change their mind on whether women were worthy enough to vote. Not only did she advocate for the right to vote, but the property rights of women as well.
Alice Paul empowered women all across the world to fight for women’s suffrage. Alice Paul is a brave woman who fought for what she believed in and persevere through anything that came in her way. Paul formed organizations to spread the word about women’s suffrage and to get people on board to support their cause. Alice Paul protested using many tactics such as marches, rallies, hunger strikes, and picketing outside of White House. Alice Paul is a woman who fought for women’s suffrage through the formation of organizations, assembling protests, rallies, parades and the ratification of the 19th amendment.
On March 03, 1913, thousands of women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. as a form of protest in order to gain suffrage rights for women. Before the march, however, one of the parade organizers, Alice Paul, urged black suffragettes including Ida B. Wells to not march with Caucasian women. She feared white suffragists may have not wanted to participate in the parade if they had to march with African American women. People within and outside of the suffrage movement including the government often discriminated against black suffragettes on the account of race, which could have made obtaining voting rights for them more difficult. As a way of combatting exclusion from the suffrage movement, Ida B. Wells established and participated in numerous organizations that supported people of color such as the Alpha Suffrage club, which was the first black female suffrage association in Chicago.
Paul became involved in the women’s suffrage movement in England 1907. Although her parents had taught her suffragist ideals she was not an active member of the suffragist community yet. After stopping to talk to a woman who was forced off the stage, Alice Paul learned of the suffragist
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.” (Az Quotes) Before the 19th amendment passed, nearly half the world didn’t have the choice to vote and someone had to do something about it. Would most people actually take a stand and dedicate their lives for it? Alice Paul chose to take a stand and commit her life to fight for women’s right to vote.
A well known suffragist in women’s history is Susan B Anthony. She gave speeches, led protests, and formed committees to help the public realize that “women are citizens” and therefore should be able to participate in events that male citizens are authorized to (Source
Females from all over America were waiting for more than a hundred years for the day that they can finally vote. A New York Times report said, “The half century struggle for women’s suffrage in the united states reached its climax at 8 o’clock this morning, when Bainbridge Colby, as a secretary of state, issued his proclamation announcing that the 19th amendment had become a part of the constitution of the United States.” Woodrow Wilson was president at the time and women stood outside his office protesting to have this right. Woodrow made a speech on this day saying “I for one believe that our safety in those questioning day, as well as our comprehension of matter that touch our society to the quick, will depend upon the direct and authorization participation of women in our counsels. ”(Wilson)
(Dubois, 189) For instance, African American women also began their suffrage by forming the National Association of Colored Women in 1903. " …with links to the Democratic Party and the labor movement, A Women's Henry George Society, and a female wing of William Randolph Hearst's Independence League." (Dubois 189) This quote presents several of representatives that women had done to the whole
(Dubois, 189) For instance, African American women also began their suffrage by forming the National Association of Colored Women in 1903. " …with links to the Democratic Party and the labor movement, A Women 's Henry George Society, and a female wing of William Randolph Hearst 's Independence League." (Dubois 189) This quote presents several of representatives that women had done to the whole society.
The women’s suffrage movement was a very difficult time for these women at the time. On June 20, 1908 is when the suffrage day happened and everyone was there including the women who wanted their right to vote. The women went through some difficulties to get their right to vote. Speeches were being given that day. Four years later a march happened.
Today her foundation continues the fight for girls and women around the globe. Alice Paul was born in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. She was born to Hicksite Quaker parents on January 11, 1885. She lived on her family farm, Paulsdale.
Until the Civil war, she never stopped working for the American Anti-Slavery Society. But then she was more focused on pursuing women's rights. She started claiming the rights of both sexes and she established with her friend Stanton the American Equal Rights Association. In 1863 both Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton established the Women's Loyal National League to demand some constitution amendments in the United States. It was the first American Women’s organization for anti-slavery movement as it was the only political tool for women at that time.