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"Alice Paul was a pivotal and controversial figure in the last years of the American battle to win the vote for women. Her first national action was to organize a grand suffrage procession in Washington, DC on 3 March 1913. She organized the parade on behalf of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the only group working to win women the vote on a national scale. She later founded her own organization, the National Woman’s Party, and charted a surprisingly aggressive course o Alice Paul, Equal Rights Amendment, Womens History, Shirley Chisholm, Suffrage Movement, Civil Rights Leaders, Influential Women, Womens History Month, Women’s Rights

Ninety-four years ago today, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States took effect, enshrining American women’s right to vote. Fifty years later, in the midst of a new wave of feminist activism, Congress designated 26 August as Women’s Equality Day in the United States.

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More on this Day - July, 9 | Britannica Alice Paul, New York School, Extraordinary Women, American Universities, Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, Women’s Rights, Portrait Gallery, Heritage Collection

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. She was long considered the elder stateswoman of the feminist movement.

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