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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...
Leonard, Margery B.
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Lawyer Margery Chittenden Leonard was born in Aqawam, Mass., the daughter of Carolyn Shirley and Edwin Leonard. She graduated from Brown University (1929) and received her law degree from Boston University (1949). A vice-chair of the National Woman's Party, Leonard testified before Congress concerning the Equal Rights Amendment in 1971, and was instrumental in producing a pamphlet on the ERA that was presented to the Senate. Leonard worked for the John Hancock Company in Boston. She was a member...
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...
