Alice Paul, born January 11, 1985 in New Jersey, was the founder of the National Woman’s Party and greatest women’s suffragist of all times. She was strong-willed in her blood, because she was the descendant of a Quaker that was killed because he would not give up his faith. She was very well educated as she graduated from Columbia University and received a Master’s Degree and a PhD at Pennsylvania University. She was a determined suffragist with her mind set on equality.

In 1909 Miss Paul joined the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA). They strived for Woman’s voting rights. But after Susan B. Anthony’s death in 1906, NAWSA’s efforts were becoming less and less successful. They remained quiet and only communicated on a sta

To reward their efforts, in 1920 Miss Paul and the rest of the National Women’s Party got Adelaide Johnson, a feminist sculptor, to sculpt a statue, called the Pioneer Suffrage statue in Carrara, Italy. It represented all the women who had devoted their lives, been imprisoned, or fought for the right to vote, and celebrated the fact that they won the battle. It is a marble statue of three legendary feminists: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. The statue was and still is the only national monument dedicated to the women’s movement.

The National Women’s Party continued on with their dramatic efforts and had parades, demonstrations, mass meetings, picketing, watch fires, wrote letters and communicated with the president, and got publicity through the press. They made sure that their efforts stayed on a federal level and they continued to demand, and they would often lobby the federal representatives. Alice, Lucy, and their colleagues of suffragists that had been released from jail road a train called the Prison Special while wearing prison clothes and protesting. But Alice would not stop there. She disregarded the criticism and kept fighting. She lead petition drives in automobiles, and stayed communicating with the president about the Susan B. Anthony amendment. Finally, in June of 1919 the Susan B. Anthony Amendment was passed by the congress. This meant that it would be added to the Constitution if it was ratified by 36 states. Most people thought that this would take ten to twenty years, but Miss Alice Paul was confident and knew her strengths. She lead campaigns around the country with the National Women’s Party and used her charisma, drama, and articulation to get the word out. The thirty-sixth state ratified in August of 1920, only one year after the congress had passed it. It became the nineteenth amendment after a seventy-two year battle. Miss Paul had succeeded, but she knew that passing the Susan B. Anthony Amendment was only the beginning. She said in 1920, “Our victory cannot be a signal for rest. It is not only the symbol for the new status which women have earned, but also the tool with which they must use to end all discrimination against them.

The Congressional Committee became in need for bigger efforts still. They felt that their little group was being minimized by the fact that they were still tied to NAWSA, who only appointed five members and gave them minimal power. Alice felt she needed to have her own, independent party, separate from NAWSA. Alice Paul then started the Congressional Union (CU), which would be larger and independent. In 1916, the Congressional Union was formed into the National Women’s Party (NWP). There, Alice, Lucy, and a group of other suffragists were determined to make the federal government aware of what they called the Susan B. Ant

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