About - Alice Paul The Book - The National Woman’s party planned to republish the story of Alice Paul because we wanted the world to know about this wonderful, courageous and dedicated woman who spent her lifetime fighting for a cause - legal equality for women. She died on July 9, 1977, before this printing became a reality but her spirit remains to inspire us to continue her fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.

Born in Moorestown, New jersey on January 11, 1885, the daughter of Quaker parents, Alice Paul changed the lives of everyone who came in contact with her, a slender, petite woman with a burning force within her that reached out to others, her greatest gift was inspiring others to follow her cause of justice for women. We have the Equal Rights Amendment today because Alice Paul was an inspired leader with a singleness of purpose.

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. They picketed the White House, were arrested, went to prison and braved starvation in hunger strikes. The great victory won by the tactics of these courageous women is not known to many as history books do not tell this story.

A graduate of Swarthmore College in 1905, Alice Paul received her Master's Degree in 1907 and a Ph.D. in social work in 1912 from the University of Pennsylvania. After passage of the Woman's Suffrage Amendment in 1930, she felt the need for law degrees and fortified herself with three: an LL.B. from Washington College if Law (1933) and an LL.M. (1927) and a DC.L (1928) from the American University in Washington.

The Nineteenth Amendment, the right to vote, was won on August 26, 1920. The National Woman's Party, knowing that the struggle for equality was not over, held a commemorative convention in 1923 at Seneca Falls, where the first equal rights convention was held in 1848. 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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