National Woman's Party papers, 1913-1974 (inclusive), [microform].

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National Woman's Party papers, 1913-1974 (inclusive), [microform].

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Correspondence, minutes, and legal and financial papers of the National Woman's Party (NWP), founded in 1913 by Alice Paul. The papers document the Party's fight for a Suffrage Amendment and its fifty year campaign for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

179 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...