Leadership And Legacy Of Alice Paul

First and foremost, the fight for women’s rights is something that has occurred throughout time not only in the United States, but in every part of the world. When it comes to the United States, one cannot deny that it was an important historical event. “The struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States had occupied better part of a century” (Source 1). Truly a struggle, for it was not acknowledged by men in the past, primarily white man who had full rights in the nation. Susan B. Anthony was an important leading figure of the Suffrage Movement and contributed to the Suffrage Movement.

She was a well respected woman that many thought was going to lead woman in the fight for equal rights.

In order for women to be taken seriously the NWP’s leaders Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who were the party’s main leaders, produced many creative forms of campaigning for the public. The first idea that they developed was on March 3, 1913, and was an organized parade in Washington D.C, purposely the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. Washington was filled with visitors due to this occasion so it was a perfect opportunity. The parade consisted of about eight thousand willing women marching onto Pennsylvania Avenue convincing bystanders to take consideration. They wore sashes and banners, one of the banners in the march said, “WE DEMAND AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ENFRANCHISING WOMEN” (Behring). These demanding banners angered the people, men began to hang outside their windows and come out of their cars to yell at the women which turned into a violent riot. Many women were injured and police officers didn’t bother to protect the women or stop the riot, it looked more like they were enforcing the situation. This caused the super

First proposed by Alice Paul, the Equal Rights Act was meant to create an equal workplace for men and women. Born in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey, Alice Paul grew up in a Quaker family. She was raised in the Quaker faith, and ever since she was a little girl, her parents always instilled in her the importance of fighting for her beliefs. This encouraged her to become active in the equal rights movement, and is most probably one of the reasons she was

This paper will evaluate the leadership of Paula Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Valley Community Healthcare (VCH, formerly Valley Community Clinic). Established in North Hollywood in 1970, VCH’s mission is “to provide culturally sensitive, high quality primary care and integrated health services to those in need, regardless of their ability to pay” (Valley Community Healthcare [VCH], 2014). Its services include primary care, including preventive services and screening and treatment for chronic conditions; women’s health care and family planning; prenatal services; pediatrics; teen health care and health education; optometry; dental services; HIV testing, treatment, and case management; behavioral health

Alice Paul was one of the most necessary factors in the equation for Women's Suffrage. Her bold tactics revitalized the suffragists movement and allowed for her to achieve her long term goals. She is the most important person of this time period because she never compromises her beliefs in the face of adversity. From a young age she was taught that she deserved unconditional equal rights. This is a radical notion that will drive her work throughout the rest of her life. She underwent arrests, forced feedings and protest after protest all in the name of equality. This message still resonates with people today as this generation fights for their rights.

She did countless things to pass an amendment which would grant the women their wish of being able to have their rights. Including a hunger strike, a silent protest, and she even endured force feeding. In Alice Paul it says, “For five months the White House siege continued; while Congress refused to act without word from the president.” (William and Mary Lavender 4). This shows the frustration that she had to go through, and how much the government seemed stubborn. She never gave up despite knowing the fact that president Wilson wouldn’t budge. In the end she was able to convince president Wilson. She never even married. If that doesn’t show her devotion I don’t know what

Making this movement public was essential in ratification of the Constitution. Paul organized women on all levels. She knew that selling the movement to the American people would further the cause. Her first attempt was to campaign against all Democratic candidates. That did not do much to the political party. She had to reformulate a plan. She organized a group of women to picket the White House daily, except for Sundays, with banners of the President’s own speeches written on them. Papers often carried the stories of the suffragettes’ struggles. When World War I was declared, that changed.

This movement is important because although it took years the goal was achieved. It was a long battle and women were brave enough to put their lives on the line. Alice Paul was a determined young woman

These influential women are most widely known suffragist of their generation and has become icons of the women suffrage movement. These independent, bold, and intelligent female pioneers paved the way for so many women different races, and nationalities to come together as one for a common cause. These women are known today as idols, icons, and activists. Those women that took a stand when no one else would be: Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. These women believed that all American women, just like men, deserve the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

Alice Paul returned to the United States of America in 1910 where she enrolled in yet another school. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where she earned a Ph.D. in sociology. This is one piece of evidence supporting the great leadership that Alice Paul portrayed. She found a cause to identify to and then obtained the needed knowledge and education needed to achieve her goals. After graduating from the University, Paul launched herself into her vocation, becoming a “full-time” suffragist. Paul then joined National American Woman Suffrage Association which was founded by Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony among others. Paul soon realized that the leadership styles employed by these two suffragist leaders did not agree with her personality and so she broke from the group, forming her own. Another piece of evidence, Paul understood herself and so knew what methods would agree with her leadership type and personality, essentially magnifying her impact. Paul then founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage with Lucy Burns. “In 1916, NAWSA found itself on the conservative side of the movement.” (ocp.hul.harvard.edu) Paul a radical at

Women’s Rights was and still is a major issue throughout the entire world, but more specifically, in the United States of America. Women have been treated unjustly for awhile. From being beaten by their husbands, to not being able to own property if they were married, women have been through it all. Many of these situations started to change because of a group of women that decided to stand up for what they believe in. A few activists that helped improve the rights of women are Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott.

to the single cause of establishing equal rights for all women. Her ideas of suffrage began when her mother, Tacie Paul, who was a member of the NAWSA1, brought Alice along with her to the women suffrage meetings. It was at a meeting at Paulsdale that she was first introduced to the suffrage movement. However, it was during her stay in England, in 1907, where she was transformed from a reserved Quaker girl into a militant suffragist.

Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. A method Alice Paul set up to help the problem publicly noticed was she held a parade in Washington D.C. on the day President Woodrow Wilson arrived from his inauguration. there were large crowds at the parade but most of them were drunk men (not good). On all of the tons of floats they had there were hundreds of women helping marching. A lot of the crowd yelled in anger and threw bottles at the women and attacked them. At the parade there were police but none of them cared and let everyone attack the women. There ended up being 100 women in the parade hospitalized. Newspaper reporters made an article about the parade taking the womens’ side. Another

Alice Paul’s radicalism played an immense role in ensuring women the due right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment, which Congress ratified the Amendment on August 18, 1920. Alice Paul known for her hunger strikes, “the iron jawed angel” that was jailed and force-fed, which gained her sympathy of the people and recognition in the government. Additionally, Paul vowed that America’s start of WWI would not intervene in the struggle for women’s equal rights. Eventually, her strategies, as well an inducement from Carrie Chapman Catt, prompted President Woodrow Wilson to construct a federal suffrage amendment, war action urgency, a stance he had formerly declined to procure. Paul was a pivotal force in the passage and ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment. In her final days, Alice Paul sustained her fight for equal rights for women until her death at the age of ninety-two in 1977. While, Alice Paul never achieved the passing of her crucial goal of an Equal Rights Amendment, Alice single-handedly concluded the seventy five-year conflict of the women’s suffrage movement. Alice Paul, along with the National Women’s Party upheld the women’s equal