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2 unusual facts about Alice Paul


Alice Paul

In the US presidential election of 1916, Paul and the NWP campaigned against the continuing refusal of President Woodrow Wilson and other incumbent Democrats to support the Suffrage Amendment actively.

Feminist movement in the United States

Alice Paul helped to pass the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by founding the National Woman's Party with Lucy Burns.


Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913

The parade played a significant role in the 2004 film Iron Jawed Angels, which chronicled the strategies of Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and the National Woman's Party as they lobbied and protested for the passage of the 19th Amendement to the U.S. Constitution which would assure women's voting rights.


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