Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) 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.

Jan 17, 2025 · Alice Paul, American women’s suffrage leader and women’s rights activist who first proposed an equal rights amendment to the United States Constitution and who influenced the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Nov 9, 2009 · Alice Paul was a Quaker suffragist who fought to secure women the right to vote and other feminist causes. The author of the Equal Rights Amendment, written in 1923 but still not ratified, died...

A vocal leader of the twentieth century women’s suffrage movement, Alice Paul advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19 th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Paul next authored the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, which has yet to be adopted.

Alice Paul was the architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements on behalf of women in the 20th century. Born on January 11, 1885 to Quaker parents in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Alice Paul dedicated her life to the single cause of securing equal rights for all.

Alice Paul was one of the most prominent activists of the 20th-century women's rights movement. An outspoken suffragist and feminist, she tirelessly led the charge for women's suffrage and equal rights in the United States.

Alice Paul, pictured here in 1915, fought for women’s suffrage and rights and helped bring about change through protests and the National Women’s Party. Born to a Quaker family in New Jersey in 1885, Paul attended women’s suffrage events from a young age.

May 30, 2019 · Alice Paul (January 11, 1885–July 9, 1977) was a leading figure responsible for the final push and success in winning passage of the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage) to the U.S. Constitution. She is identified with the more radical wing of the women's suffrage movement that later developed.

After gaining fame for her daring participation in the British suffrage movement in her early 20s, Alice Paul joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1913. She became known for her confrontational tactics and single-mindedness in the pursuit of women's right to vote.

Paul was largely unknown five years earlier when she arrived in Washington to work for an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting voter discrimination based on sex. That a paper in a remote U.S. territory would now find her measles newsworthy, albeit embellished with a keyhole, suggested how she had captured the attention of the nation.