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  Alice Paul
Alice Paul was born into a Quaker family in Moorestown, New Jersey on 11th January, 1885.
Paul returned home in 1910 where she became involved in the struggle for women's suffrage in the United States.
Alice Paul comes of Quaker stock and there is in her bearing that powerful serenity so characteristic of the successful Quaker.
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  Alice Paul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul was born into a Quaker family at Paulsdale, her family farm in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
While she was in England, Paul heard Christabel Pankhurst speak at the University of Birmingham in 1908.
Alice Paul did oppose the linkage between the ERA and abortion, but that was because of her political astuteness rather than any disagreement with abortion.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alice Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alice Paul, like her idol Susan B. Anthony before her, had a feminist philosophy that demanded full equality for women and a belief that moral principles should be committed to action.
Paul had a serious-minded childhood, during which she developed a strong sense of right and wrong, and the belief that any life without a cause was empty.
The socialist Liberator reported in early 1918 that "Alice Paul and her young army of militants are one of the leading radical forces in American politics in the near future." Beginning in 1917, socialist women joined the NWP in droves to demonstrate against the Wilson government.
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 CWHF-Alice Paul
Alice Paul and her colleagues took to the streets to demand suffrage and, during the First World War, picketed the White House to protest against a government that promised to make the world safe for democracy while denying half of its citizens the right to vote.
Alice Paul, along with many other National Woman's Party members, suffered arrest and imprisonment as a result of her militant protest.
Alice Paul worked tirelessly for the Treaty, until her death in 1977.
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 Alice Paul
Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885 on a 214-acre farm in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.
Alice's mother and father believed in social equality and her mother even took her to suffrage meetings.
Alice Paul continued to work for legal equality for women until her death on July 9, 1977.
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 Moondance: Legendary Feminist Alice Paul by Sonia Pressman Fuentes
In the United Kingdom, Alice Paul was imprisoned three times, and when she went on hunger strikes to pressure the government to grant women suffrage, she was force-fed.
NWP implemented the policy Miss Paul had brought with her from England of holding the party in power responsible for the lack of progress in achieving suffrage and of working against that party.
Although Miss Paul was seventy-nine at the time, she ran the lobbying campaign to include the category of sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from NWP's headquarters in the Sewall-Belmont House on Capitol Hill.
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 Alice Paul and the Triumph of Militancy
American graduate student Alice Paul was "extremely thrilled" when she joined the Parliamentary deputations of the WSPU while in England.
Paul was born in 1885 in the Quaker community of Moorestown, New Jersey, and was brought up with the Quaker maxim that women were equal before God and were entitled, even obliged, to address social problems.
Paul and Winslow decided to go on hunger strike in order to get political prisoner status "in accordance with the plan started by the 60 day group." Paul had not wanted other NWP suffragists to hunger strike, but only herself.
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 Women's History-Alice Paul
Paul was a driving force in the U.S. woman-suffrage movement.
Narrator A: In 1885, Alice Paul is born in Moorestown, New Jersey.
When Alice Paul died in 1977, she believed that there was much more work to be done in improving women's rights.
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 Alice Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alice Paul recollects her struggles for suffrage, the demonstrations, the force feedings, her eventual return to graduate school where she received three law degrees, and the ultimate penning of the ERA.
Taylor Williams, like Alice Paul is a lawyer and represents the Pennsylvania Judiciary in a broad spectrum of litigation matters, often of a constitutional nature.
Alice Paul died in 1977 at the age of 94 – the ERA has not yet been ratified.
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 Alice Paul - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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Paul stood proudly over the banner--gold, white, and purple with a double row of stars down the middle, representing each of the 36 states that had ratified the amendment.
Paul thought it more effective to concentrate suffrage efforts on the national level, as opposed to state, thereby limiting the number of men she and her members needed to successfully lobby for a constitutional amendment.
Paul submitted the first version of the amendment to Congress in 1923 and campaigned tirelessly for its passage until her death in 1977.
www.swarthmore.edu /bulletin/archive/00/dec00/paul.html   (3759 words)

  
 Alice_Paul
Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader.
Alice Paul was born into a Quaker family in Moorestown, New Jersey, where she attended Moorestown Friends School.
In 1912, Alice Paul joined the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA) and was appointed Chairman of their Congressional Committee in Washington, DC.
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 Alice Paul biography
Alice was focused on a federal constitutional amendment, whereas Shaw and Catt were working on state-by-state suffrage.
Alice was placed in solitary confinement for two weeks and immediately began a hunger strike.
Alice Paul unfurling the ratification banner over the railing of the National Woman's Party headquarters on August 26, 1920 -- the day the 19th Amendment was ratified.
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 APUS - Unit 9 Notes - Alice Paul and the Hunger Strike
London, Dec. 9.-Miss Alice Paul, of Philadelphia, the suffragette who was arrested November 9th and sentenced to a month's hard labor for her share in the suffragette demonstration at the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall, was released from Holloway jail this morning on the completion of her thirty days.
Miss Paul, who was the inventor of the suffragettes "hunger strike " and practiced it during her latest term in jail, was cheerful, and said she did not regret her conduct, and was prepared to reheat it again if necessary.
Miss Paul said she was the granddaughter of a New Jersey judge, and a master of arts of the university of Pennsylvania.
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 Today in History: January 11
Alice Paul, chief strategist for the militant wing of the suffrage movement and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, was born on January 11, 1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey.
Alice Paul joined the woman suffrage movement while pursuing graduate studies in England.
Active in the movement until her death in 1977, Alice Paul lived to see enormous change in the rights and status of American women.
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 The Alice Paul Memorial March, Washington, D.C. 1977
Paul was the leader of the militant wing of the U.S. Suffrage movement, the author and chief promoter of the Equal Rights Amendment, and an activist who encouraged the spread of feminist ideas all over the world.
Paul oversaw the preparation of another Constitutional amendment, which was announced at a major conference held in Seneca Falls on July 21, 1923.
Paul died during the campaign for ratification, which was led largely by the National Organization for Women (NOW).
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 Alice Paul
Paul received an MA in 1907, and a Ph.D., in absentia, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul successfully lobbied for wording on gender equality to be included in the preamble to the United Nations Charter and in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Lyrics of sunshine and shadow; the courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore.(Brief......
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 Alice Paul Crystal Studded T-Shirt
Alice Paul was the daughter of William M. and Tracie Perry Paul, both devoted Quakers.
Paul received her B.A. from Swarthmore in 1905, her M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907, and a Ph.D. from the latter institution in 1912.
Paul returned to the U.S. in 1910 to write her dissertation on the legal status of women and then put new life into the moribund federal amendment campaign.
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Alice Paul was one of the rowdiest rebels ever to fight for the causes she believed in – and she wasn’t afraid to get dirty doing it.
Alice Paul was one of the strongest voices in a suffragist movement that spanned nearly a century.
By taking a radical approach to the process of securing passage of the 19th amendment, Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party kept the women’s suffrage movement at the top of both public interest and outrage by staging countless protests, rallies, and hunger strikes.
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 Alice Paul biography
Alice's life on the "home farm" (as she referred to her home) marked her early childhood and is reflected in her work as an adult.
Alice and her siblings likely had many domestic and agricultural responsibilities instilling the values of industry and perseverance; two lessons critical for her later success.
Alice was an excellent student, a voracious reader, and played several extracurricular sports in school including basketball, baseball and field hockey.
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 ALICE PAUL
Alice Paul dedicated her entire life to the fight for equality, starting with women's rights.
Alice Paul had participated in many suffrage protests in England and brought back her knowledge about demonstrating to the U.S. am in awe of the picketing in particular because it brought public attention to women's suffrage.
Alice had cuts in her mouth and esophagus and threw up everything the doctors put in her.
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 Alice Paul: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Alice Paul's summary was automatically generated using 3 references found on the Internet.
Paul was the first Tohono O'odham member to earn a UA doctorate in education, and the first to teach in Tucson Unified School District.
Alice Paul retired from the University of Arizona in June of 1999 after completing thirty years of service in the College of Education.
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 APUS - Unit 9 Notes - Alice Paul
Philadelphia, Jan. 22.-"Revolting" is the word Miss Alice Paul, the American suffragette, who returned on Thursday by the steamer Haverford from exciting adventures in England, applies to the forced feeding which she endured in Holloway jail.
Miss Paul, who seems not to mind going without food for any length of time, got into the hall the night before, disguised as a scrub woman, and secreted herself until the meeting began.
Miss Paul left Philadelphia for her home in Moorestown, N. J., immediately after landing, and intends to give her attention for the present to the recovery of her health, which suffered somewhat from her stormy experience.
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 WayBack . Stand Up For Your Rights . Features/Women and the Vote | PBS KIDS GO!
Throughout the winter of 1917, Alice Paul and her followers in the National Women's Party picketed the White House.
By the time Alice Paul was sent to prison, the fight for women's suffrage had been going on for almost 70 years.
By the time Alice Paul and the National Women's Party began their suffrage campaign, the old leaders of the women's movement were gone.
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 Alice Paul and The National Woman’s party - How the women got the vote, Denlinger's Publishers and Bookstore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The story of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party is that of a group of women who dared to defy the system in order to liberate women.
Alice Paul presented a proposal to further obtain the rights demanded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott at the Convention.
Alice Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment and under her leadership, the National Woman's Party had it introduced in Congress in 1923 and for 49 years thereafter.
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 Paul and Alice Chou - Money and Faith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Paul was born into a Christian family that came to the U.S. in 1955.
Paul: The first couple years we did this, young people consistently said the number one need they had was mentors in their lives.
Alice: It's really a timely program for the Chinese because their economy is opening up to globalization and students really want to be involved in international programs.
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 Alice Paul played by Hilary Swank - HBO Films: Iron Jawed Angels: Cast and Crew
Arrested several times in London, Paul went on hunger strikes, was force-fed and learned the value of nonviolent civil disobedience to garner publicity for her cause.
Arrested on the trumped-up charge of "obstructing traffic," Paul was sent to the Occoquan Workhouse, where she demanded to be treated as a political prisoner arrested for her beliefs, not for committing a crime.
When news of Paul's brutal force-feeding during a 22-day hunger strike reached the public, the White House bowed to public pressure, and she was released.
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