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Alice Paul

Introduction

Alice Paul was the architect of some of the most outstanding political achievements on behalf of women. Alice Paul interests in equal rights for all women rights and the right to vote for women. She created opportunities for women to participate in politics that we can see today, there is no difference between men and women. Today the education between girls and boys is becoming more equal.

Alice Paul was not happy to see that there are no opportunities for women to get degree from colleges and not to get better job. She wants women and men to be equal partners in society. Alice Paul found out her life's mission and accomplished herself in three key academic areas of study. National Woman's Party, The Nineteenth Amendment and The Equal Rights Amendment.

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I. Alice Paul begin the goal of universal suffrage that means women rights to vote in political election.

A. Alice Paul shared the goal of universal suffrage, with Carries Chapman Catt who was the president of National Woman Suffrage Association, their political strategies were not different.

1. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) concentrated a majority of its effort upon state aim, Paul wanted to focus all energy and funding upon a national amendment.

2. While NAWSA endorsed President Wilson and looked to members of the Democratic Party as allies, Alice Paul wanted to hold Wilson and his party responsible for women's continued disenfranchisement (a tactic of British Suffragettes).

B. In 1914, initially forming a semi-autonomous group called the Congressional Union, Paul and her followers severed all ties to NAWSA and, in 1916, formed the National Woman's Party (NWP).

1. The NWP organized "Silent Sentinels" to stand outside the White House holding banners inscribed with...