National Woman's Party papers: the suffrage years, 1889-1940 (inclusive), 1913-1920 (bulk), [microform].

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National Woman's Party papers: the suffrage years, 1889-1940 (inclusive), 1913-1920 (bulk), [microform].

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The papers document the militant aspect of the suffrage campaign in the United States. Concerned almost exclusively with the federal suffrage amendment campaign, they reflect the culmination of over fifty years of suffrage agitation. The papers also reflect the creation, growth, and development of the National Woman's Party, which became an active organization in the women's rights movement.

97 reels.

Yale University Library

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National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...