Alice Paul Women's Rights Movement

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Alice paul was revelationist for women rights. She was known for radical ways she protested for women's rights.She was a charismatic and brilliant strategists for equal rights.Alice paul co- founded the National Woman's Party.Alice was a key figure in 1910s for the Nineteenth Amendment .
The Alice Paul Institute is corporation in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.The corporation a nonprofit organization.The Alice Paul Institute follows Alice Paul’s legacy for gender equality.The Alice Paul Institute goal is to press for equality .


Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul was born in a Quaker household in January 11, 1885( History.com Staff,2009).She raised in Moorestown,New Jersey.Alice Paul grow up quite comfortable. Her house was quite grand …show more content…

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded the national woman's party.In 1916 was the era where Alice is protest are considered unladylike.Inez Milholland a woman in NPA that passed out in during giving a speech in west and later she died. Her last words. President, how long must women wait for liberty Alice paul impacted by her death.Alice Paul protested in front of the White House. Even during her protest and speech she directly called out the president. Alice Paul in quote “or more than sixty years women have been trying to win suffrage by the State referendum method, advocated by President Wilson” (Paul,1916).Paul wanted to focus on a national amendment. Although NAWSA endorsed by the President. Alice severed all ties to NAWSA. NPA blamed Wilson and his party responsible women deprive rights. Alice protested in front of the White House with signs that Stirred controversy.Such as” Kaiser Wilson” to get her point across . America was at the entry of World war 1 Alice and her colleagues refused to abandon their tactics.Her tactics were considered unpatriotic.One protest got violent and the women who were protesting were charged with obstructing traffic.Alice once again was arrested.The prison officials hoped that Alice Paul was declared insane.Paul and her compatriots were sent to a prison in Virginia. While Alice and her compatriots were in prison they participated in hunger strikes. While Alice Paul was in prison she was force-fed her meals.The force feeding torturous act which the participant were tied down and a doctor would stick a tube up their nostril and pour liquids into a tunnel such as milk or other liquids foods. The women who were imprisoned were beaten and pushed into they’re rat-infested cells. As more arrests increased the conditions worsened. The conditions of the prison exposed to the public and transcended the wave of public demanded the women to be freed. The new wave of public outrage of how the

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