1. Jailed for Freedom
... for racial rights until the day she died. When she died, she was the symbol of woman's rights in the United States. In my mind the image I see when I hear the words, "militant general" is everything but the impression that Ms. Paul presents. She was a frail-looking, young Quaker woman whose weather-worn hands showed the signs of much manual ... to put the power of his office behind the suffrage amendment. "Unwomanly" . . . "dangerous." These words and many others were used to describe the women in the movement and their actions for equality. "Silly women" . . . "unsexed" . . . "pathologi...
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- Grade Level: High School