Reminiscences of Alice Paul : oral history, 1973.

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Reminiscences of Alice Paul : oral history, 1973.

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Quaker background; Swarthmore College; social work, New York City; work with Pankhursts in England; return to United States, PhD in economics, 1912; leadership of suffrage movement, National American Woman's Suffrage Association, Congressional Union; Shafroth-Palmer amendment and split with National American Woman's Suffrage Association; campaigning methods: lobbying, presidential delegations, imprisonment; formation of National Woman's Party, President Wilson's endorsement, Senate struggle, ratification process; 1923, Equal Rights Amendment: wording, lobbying, publicity methods; opposition from American Association of University Women, Women's Bureau; factions within National Woman's Party; equal nationality rights; impressions of Maud Younger, Eva Belmont, Anita Pollitzer, Mabel Vernon, Lucy Burns, Jeannette Rankin.

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