Background
What year was Alice Paul born?
What did Alice Paul see as the most pressing problem facing the US?
Women's rights and suffrage
What did Alice Paul believe about the suffrage movement?
She believed that the suffrage movement needed to focus on getting a federal suffrage amendment passed
What organization did Alice Paul found in 1916?
What amendment was passed?
19th Amendment
What year did Alice Paul die?
(July 9) 1977
Who did Alice Paul involve herself with in England?
Emmeline Pankhurst (and daughters)
Upon her initial arrival to the US what association was Alice Paul appointed chair of?
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Whose presidential campaign did the NWP protest?
Woodrow Wilson
What were some suffrage groups that emerged?
2.) National Woman's Party
3.) National American Woman Suffrage Association
Where was Alice Paul born and where did she die?
Moorestown, New Jersey (for both)
How did Alice Paul's involvement with Pankhurst impact her?
Motivated her to continue fighting for suffrage
What was the NAWSA's first planned march?
The NAWSA's first planned procession was the Woman's Suffrage Procession in Washington DC.
How long did protests last outside the White House in 1916?
18 months
Many conflicts between the two
What concept did Alice Paul value?
Gender equality
What consequences did Alice Paul have for involving herself with Pankhurst?
She was arrested and imprisoned many times
How did the tensions surrounding the procession affect Alice Paul
Tensions grew between Alice Paul and NAWSA leadership
How did Alice Paul and others protest in prison in 1917? How did prison guards react?
They went on hunger strike and prison guards restrained and force-fed them through a tube
How did the National Woman's Party and NAWSA compare?
The National Woman's Party was much more radical than the NAWSA
What religion was Alice Paul's family?
Quakers
What were some of Pankhurst's tactics?
Smashing windows and hunger strikes
What happened at the NAWSA's first planned procession?
This procession almost turned into a riot due to spectators' assaults on women and police refusal to intervene.
What was the question protesters in 1916 were asking?
How could the president send men overseas to fight for democracy when women in the U.S. did not experience democracy?
How is Alice Paul remembered?