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Also known as Alice Stokes Paul

American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)

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Country
GB
Active from
1942-06-18

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Born
Alice Stokes Paul , ( 1885-01-11 ) January 11, 1885, Mount Laurel, New Jersey , U.S.
Died
July 9, 1977 (1977-07-09) (aged 92), Moorestown, New Jersey , U.S.
Resting place
Westfield Friends Burial Ground, Cinnaminson, New Jersey , U.S.
Education
Swarthmore College ( BS ), Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre , London School of Economics , University of Pennsylvania ( MA , PhD ), American University ( LLB , LLM , DCL )
Occupation
Suffragist
Political party
National Woman's Party

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Official website

Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice

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Encyclopedic overview

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. 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.

Paul often suffered police brutality and other physical abuse for her activism, always responding with nonviolence. She was jailed in 1917 for participating in a Silent Sentinels protest in front of the White House, as she had been several times during earlier efforts to secure the vote for women in the United Kingdom.

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