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- Birth nameAlice Stokes Paul
- Alice Paul is an American socialist, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. 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 1920.
After 1920, Alice Paul spent a half century as leader of the National Woman's Party, which fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, written by Paul and Crystal Eastman, to secure constitutional equality for women. She won a large degree of success with the inclusion of women as a group protected against discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 alongside legal scholar Pauli Murray.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- Pictured on a 78¢ US definitive postage stamp in the Great Americans series, issued 18 August 1995.
- Chief strategist for the militant suffrage wing.
- Founder of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party.
- Author of the Equal Rights Amendment.
- Organizer of the 1913 parade in Washington, D.C.
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