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{{short description|American suffragist, feminist, and activist (1885–1977)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Alice Paul
| image         = Alice Paul cph.3a38295.jpg
| caption       = Paul in 1918
| birth_name    = Alice Stokes Paul
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1885|1|11}}
| birth_place   = [[Mount Laurel, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1977|7|9|1885|1|11}}
| death_place   = [[Moorestown, New Jersey]], U.S.
| resting_place = Westfield Friends Burial Ground, [[Cinnaminson, New Jersey]], U.S.
| party         = [[National Woman's Party]]
| occupation    = [[Suffragist]]
| education     = [[Swarthmore College]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre]]<br />[[London School of Economics]]<br />[[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])<br />[[American University]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]], [[Master of Laws|LLM]], [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]])
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'''Alice Stokes Paul''' (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American [[Quaker]], [[suffragette]], [[suffragist]], [[feminist]], and [[women's rights]] activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], which prohibits [[sex discrimination]] in the [[right to vote]]. Paul initiated, and along with [[Lucy Burns]] and others, strategized events such as the [[Woman Suffrage Procession]] and the [[Silent Sentinels]], which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in the amendment's passage in August 1920.<ref name="test">Baker, Jean H., "[https://www.americanheritage.com/content/placards-white-house Placards At The White House]," [[American Heritage (magazine)|''American Heritage'']], Winter 2010, Volume 59, Issue 4.</ref>

Paul often suffered [[police brutality]] and other physical abuse for her activism, always responding with [[nonviolence]] and courage. She was jailed under terrible conditions in 1917 for participating in a Silent Sentinels protest in front of the [[White House]], as she had been several times during earlier efforts to secure the vote for women in the [[United Kingdom]].

After 1920, Paul spent a half-century as leader of the [[National Woman's Party]], which fought for the [[Equal Rights Amendment]], written by Paul and [[Crystal Eastman]], to secure constitutional equality for women. She won a major permanent success with the inclusion of women as a group protected against discrimination by the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964#Women's rights|Civil Rights Act of 1964]].

==Early life and education==
[[File:AlicePaulHelenGardener.png|thumb|upright=1.1|Paul and Helen Gardener, c. 1908–1915]]
Alice Stokes Paul was born on January 11, 1885, to William Mickle Paul I and Tacie ''Parry'' Paul at [[Paulsdale]] in [[Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Alice Paul|url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-paul|website=National Women's History Museum|access-date=January 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>Kahn, Eve M. [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/13/garden/group-seeks-to-buy-a-suffragist-s-home.html "Group Seeks to Buy a Suffragist's Home"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 13, 1989. Accessed July 12, 2008. "The Alice Paul Centennial Foundation plans to buy the house in Mount Laurel, but first the organization must raise $500,000 by Sept. 8.... The 2½-story, stucco-clad brick farmhouse was built in 1840 and once overlooked the Paul family's 173-acre Burlington County farm, east of Camden. Miss Paul was born in an upstairs bedroom in 1885 and lived in the house until she left for Swarthmore College in 1901."</ref> She was a namesake of Alice Stokes, her maternal grandmother and the wife of William Parry. Her siblings were Willam Mickle Paul II, Helen ''Paul'' Shearer, and Parry Haines Paul. She grew up in the Quaker tradition of public service; Alice Paul first learned about women's suffrage from her mother, a member of the [[National American Woman Suffrage Association]] (NAWSA), and would sometimes join her mother in attending suffragist meetings.<ref name=Institute>{{cite web|title=Who Was Alice Paul|url=https://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/|publisher=Alice Paul Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909083624/https://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/|archive-date=September 9, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Paul attended [[Moorestown Friends School]], where she graduated at the top of her class.<ref name=Education>{{cite web|url=https://www.socialwelfarehistory.com/people/paul-alice-stokes/|title=Paul, Alice Stokes|date=January 21, 2011|publisher=Social Welfare History Project}}</ref> In 1901, she entered [[Swarthmore College]], which had been co-founded in 1864 by her grandfather and other [[Hicksite]] Friends. While at Swarthmore, Paul served on the executive board of Student Government, an experience which may have sparked her excitement for political activism. She graduated from Swarthmore with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1905.<ref name=Institute />

After graduation, partly to avoid going into teaching, Paul pursued a fellowship year in [[New York City]], living on the [[Lower East Side]] at the [[Rivington Street Settlement|Rivington Street Settlement House]].<ref name="Image3">{{cite web |title=Image 3 of Official program woman suffrage procession. Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913. |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.20801600/?sp=3&st=text |website=Library of Congress|access-date=April 21, 2022}}</ref> Working in the [[settlement movement]] reinforced her determination to right perceived injustices in America, but Paul soon realized that [[social work]] was not the way she was to achieve this goal: "I knew in a very short time I was never going to be a social worker, because I could see that social workers were not doing much good in the world{{nbsp}}... you couldn't change the situation by social work."<ref>Alice Paul in oral history compiled by Amelia Fry, [https://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6f59n89c/?brand=oac4 Online Archive of California], quoted in {{harvp|Adams|Keene|2008|p=7}}.</ref>

In 1907, after completing coursework in political science, sociology, and economics, Paul earned a Master of Arts degree from the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name=Institute /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign|last1=Adams|first1=Katherine|last2=Keene|first2=Michael|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=2008 |isbn=978-0-252-07471-4|location=Urbana-Champaign}}</ref> She continued her studies at the [[Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre]] in [[Birmingham]], England. Paul also took economics classes from the [[University of Birmingham]] while continuing to earn money doing social work. It was at Birmingham that she first heard [[Christabel Pankhurst]] speak. When Paul later moved to London to study sociology and economics at the [[London School of Economics]], she joined the militant suffrage group the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] (WSPU) led by Christabel and her mother, [[Emmeline Pankhurst]]. Paul was arrested repeatedly in London during suffrage demonstrations and served three jail terms. After returning from England in 1910, she attended the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Ph.D. in sociology. Her dissertation was entitled "The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania"; it addressed the history of the women's movement in [[Pennsylvania]] and the rest of the U.S. and urged woman suffrage as the key issue of the day.<ref name="Adams">{{harvp|Adams|Keene|2008|pp=12–14}}</ref>

After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Paul enrolled at two law schools, taking day and evening classes to finish more quickly.<ref name=":14" /> In 1922, Paul received her LL.B degree from the [[Washington College of Law]] at [[American University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wcl.american.edu/history/alicepaul.cfm |title=Honoring Alice Paul |publisher=[[Washington College of Law]] |access-date=September 3, 2010}}</ref> In 1927, she earned a [[master of laws]] degree, and in 1928, a doctorate in civil law from American University.<ref name=Lakewood>{{cite news|title=Alice Paul Biography |work=Lakewood Public Library: Women in History |url=https://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/paul-ali.htm |access-date=May 1, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619192543/https://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/paul-ali.htm |archive-date=June 19, 2006}}</ref>

==Career==
===Britain===
====Early work in British woman suffrage====
[[File:Alice Paul (1915) by Harris & Ewing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Paul in 1915]]
In 1907, after completing her master's degree at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], Paul moved to [[England]], where she eventually became deeply involved with the British women's suffrage movement, regularly participating in demonstrations and marches of the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] (WSPU). After a "conversion experience" seeing [[Christabel Pankhurst]] speak at the University of Birmingham, Paul became enamored of the movement. She first became involved by selling a suffragist magazine on street corners. Considering the animosity towards the suffragettes, this was an arduous task and opened her eyes to the abuse women involved in the movement faced.<ref name=":0" /> These experiences, combined with the teachings of Professor [[Beatrice Webb]], convinced Paul that social work and charity could not bring about the needed social changes in society: this could only be accomplished through equal legal status for women.<ref name=":0" />

While in London, Paul also met [[Lucy Burns]], a fellow American activist, while arrested in a British police station,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes|last=Atkinson|first=Diane|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2018|isbn=978-1408844045|location=London|oclc=1016848621}}</ref> who would become an essential ally for the duration of the suffrage fight, first in England, then in the United States. The two women impressed prominent WSPU members and began organizing events and campaign offices. When [[Emmeline Pankhurst]] attempted to spread the movement to Scotland, Paul and Burns accompanied her as assistants.<ref name=":0" />

Paul gained the trust of fellow WSPU members through her talent with visual rhetoric and her willingness to put herself in physical danger to increase the visibility of the suffrage movement. While at the WSPU's headquarters in Edinburgh, Paul and local suffragettes made plans to protest a speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sir [[Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon|Edward Grey]]. For a week prior, they spoke with people on the streets to promote knowledge about why they were protesting against the Cabinet member. After Grey discussed proposed legislation he claimed would lead to prosperity at the meeting, Paul stood up and exclaimed: "Well, these are very wonderful ideals, but couldn't you extend them to women?"<ref name=":0" /> Police responded by dragging her out of the meeting and through the streets to the police station, where she was arrested. As planned, this act was viewed by many as a public silencing of legitimate protest and increased press coverage and public sympathy.<ref name=":0" />

Later events involved even more risk of bodily harm. Before a political meeting at St. Andrew's Hall in [[Glasgow]] in August 1909, Paul camped out on the hall's roof so that she could address the crowd below. When police forced her to descend, crowds cheered her effort. Later, when Paul, Burns, and fellow suffragettes attempted to enter the event, they were beaten by police as sympathetic bystanders attempted to protect them. After Paul and her fellow protesters were taken into custody, crowds gathered outside the police station demanding the women's release.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fotheringham |first1=Ann |title=Thanks for the Memories: Glasgow's Votes for Women celebration at Mitchell |url=https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16900627.thanks-for-the-memories-glasgows-votes-for-women-celebration-at-mitchell/ |website=Evening Times |date=September 25, 2018 |access-date=September 27, 2018}}</ref>

On November 9, 1909, in honor of [[Lord Mayor's Day]], the Lord Mayor of London hosted a banquet for cabinet ministers in the city's Guild Hall. Paul planned the WSPU's response; she and Amelia Brown disguised themselves as cleaning women and entered the building with the normal staff at 9:00&nbsp;am. Once in the building, the women hid until the event started that evening. Then they came out of hiding and "took their stand". When Prime Minister [[H. H. Asquith]] stood to speak, Brown threw her shoe through a pane of stained glass, and both women yelled, "Votes for women!" Following this event, both women were arrested and sentenced to one-month hard labor after refusing to pay fines and damages for the window damage.<ref name=":0" /> She was imprisoned at [[Holloway Prison]] in [[London]].<ref>PBS America: The Vote (1:2)</ref>

==== Civil disobedience and hunger strikes ====
Whilst associated with the Women's Social and Political Union, Paul was arrested a total of seven times and imprisoned three times.<ref name="Dodd">{{cite journal|last=Dodd|first=Lynda G.|year=2008|title=Parades, pickets, and prison: Alice Paul and the virtues of unruly constitutional citizenship|journal=Journal of Law & Politics|volume=24|issue=4|pages=339–443|ssrn=2226351}}</ref> It was during her time in prison that she learned the tactics of [[civil disobedience]] from Emmeline Pankhurst. Chief among these tactics was demanding to be treated as a [[political prisoner]] upon arrest. This not only sent a message about the legitimacy of the suffragists to the public but also had the potential to provide tangible benefits. In many European countries, including England, political prisoners were given a special status: "[T]hey were not searched upon arrest, not housed with the rest of the prisoner population, not required to wear prison garb, and not force-fed if they engaged in hunger strikes."<ref name=":0" /> Though arrested suffragists often were not afforded the status of political prisoners, this form of civil disobedience provided much press for the WSPU. For example, during a London arrest (after being denied political prisoner status), Paul refused to put on prisoner's clothing. After the prison matrons could not undress her forcibly, they requested assistance from male guards. This act, considered shockingly improper by [[Victorian era]] standards, provided extensive press coverage for the suffrage movement.<ref name=":0" />

Another popular civil disobedience tactic used by the suffragists was [[hunger striking]]. The first WSPU-related hunger strike was conducted by sculptor [[Marion Wallace Dunlop]] in June 1909. By that fall, it was being widely used by WSPU members because of its effectiveness in publicizing their mistreatment and gaining quick release from prison wardens. Refusing food worked in securing an early release for Paul during her first two arrests. However, during her third prison stint, the warden ordered twice daily force-feeding to keep Paul strong enough to finish her month-long sentence.<ref name=":0" />

Though the prisons staunchly maintained that the force-feeding of prisoners was for their own benefit, Paul and other women described the process as torturous. Paul had developed severe [[gastritis]] at the end of her month in prison. She was carried out of prison and immediately tended to by a doctor. However, after this event, her health was permanently scarred; she often developed colds and flu, which would sometimes require hospitalization.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Alice Paul: Equality for Women|last=Lunardini|first=Christine|publisher=Westview Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0813347615}}</ref>

Paul had been given a [[Hunger Strike Medal]] 'for Valour' by WSPU.

=== United States ===
After the ordeal of her final London imprisonment, Paul returned to the United States in January 1910 to continue her recovery and to develop a plan for suffrage work back home.<ref name="Dodd"/> Paul's experiences in England were well-publicized, and the American news media quickly began following her actions upon her return home. She drew upon the teachings of Woodbrooke and her religion and quickly decided that she wanted to embrace a single goal as a testimony. The single goal she chose was the recognition of women as equal citizens.

Paul reenrolled at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], pursuing her Ph.D. while speaking about her experiences in the British suffrage movement to Quaker audiences and starting to work towards United States suffrage on the local level. After completing her dissertation, a comprehensive overview of the history of the legal status of United States women, she began participating in [[National American Woman Suffrage Association]] (NAWSA) rallies, and in April 1910, was asked to speak at NAWSA's annual convention. After this significant opportunity, Paul and Burns proposed to NAWSA leadership a campaign to gain a federal amendment guaranteeing the vote for women. This was wholly contrary to NAWSA's state-by-state strategy. Paul and Burns were laughed at by NAWSA leadership; the only exception was [[Jane Addams]], who suggested that the women tone down their plan. As a response, Paul asked to be placed on the organization's Congressional Committee.<ref name=":1" />

==== 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession ====
{{Main|1913 Woman Suffrage Procession}}
[[File:Inez Milholland 1913 two.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Inez Milholland]] leading the [[Woman Suffrage Procession]] on horseback in 1913]]
[[File:Official Program Woman Suffrage Procession - March 3, 1913.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Cover to the program for the 1913 [[Woman Suffrage Procession]], which Paul organized]]
One of Paul's first big projects was initiating and organizing the 1913 [[Woman Suffrage Procession]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], the day before [[President Wilson]]'s inauguration. Paul was determined to pressure Wilson because the office of the President would be able to influence Congress the most. She assigned volunteers to contact suffragists nationwide and recruit supporters to march in the parade. In a matter of weeks, Paul succeeded in gathering roughly eight thousand marchers representing most of the country. However, she had much more trouble gaining institutional support for the protest parade. Paul insisted the parade route go through [[Pennsylvania Avenue]] where President Wilson would be. Her goal was to send the message that the push for women's suffrage existed before Wilson and would outlast him if need be. Washington officials originally resisted this route, and according to biographer Christine Lunardini, Paul was the only one who truly believed the parade would take place on that route. Eventually, the city ceded the route to NAWSA. However, the city supervisor claimed that the women would not be safe marching along the Pennsylvania Avenue route and strongly suggested the group move the parade. Paul responded by demanding the city supervisor provide more police, which was not done. On March 3, 1913, the parade gained legitimacy with Congress passing a special resolution ordering the city supervisor to prohibit all ordinary traffic along the parade route and prevent any interference with the suffrage marchers.<ref name=":1" />

On the event day, the procession proceeded along Paul's desired route. The event, which was led by notable labor lawyer [[Inez Milholland]] dressed in white and riding a horse, was described by the ''New York Times'' as "one of the most impressively beautiful spectacles ever staged in this country".<ref name=":1" /> Multiple bands, banners, squadrons, chariots, and floats were also displayed in the parade representing all women's lives. One of the most notable sights was the lead banner in the parade which declared, "We Demand an Amendment to the United States Constitution Enfranchising the Women of the Country."<ref name="Dodd" /> Some participating groups and leaders, however, wanted black and white women's organizations and state delegations to be segregated; after much discussion, NAWSA decided black women could march where they wished. Still, [[Ida B. Wells]] was asked not to march with the Illinois delegation; ultimately, she joined the Chicago group and continued the march with the state delegation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/nwp/INTRODUC.html|title=How Did the National Woman's Party Address the Issue of the Enfranchisement of Black Women, 1919–1924?|last1=Sklar|first1=Kathryn Kish|last2=Dias|first2=Jill|date=1997|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref>

Over half a million people came to view the parade. With insufficient police protection, the situation soon devolved into a near-riot, with onlookers pressing so close to the women that they could not proceed. Police largely did nothing to protect the women from rioters. A senator who participated in the march later testified that he personally took the badge numbers of 22 officers who had stood idle, including two sergeants. Eventually, members of the [[Massachusetts National Guard|Massachusetts]] and [[Pennsylvania National Guard|Pennsylvania]] [[National Guard (United States)|National Guard]] intervened, and students from the [[University of Maryland, College Park|Maryland Agricultural College]] provided a human barrier to help the women pass. Some accounts even describe [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]] as stepping in and providing first aid to the injured. The incident mobilized public dialogue about the police response to the women's demonstration, producing greater awareness and sympathy for NAWSA.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Dodd" /><ref name=":1" />

After the parade, the NAWSA's next focus was lobbying for a [[constitutional amendment]] to secure the right to vote for women. Such an amendment had been initially sought by suffragists [[Susan B. Anthony]] and [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] who, as leaders of the [[National Woman Suffrage Association|NWSA]], fought for a federal amendment to the constitution securing women's suffrage until the 1890 formation of NAWSA, which campaigned for the vote on a state-by-state basis.

====National Woman's Party====
{{main|National Woman's Party}}
Paul's militant methods started to create tension between her and the leaders of NAWSA, who thought she was moving too aggressively in Washington. Eventually, disagreements about strategy and tactics led to a break with NAWSA. Paul formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and, later the [[National Woman's Party]] (NWP) in 1916.{{sfnp|Zahniser|Fry|2014|pp=178–231}}

The NWP began introducing some of the methods used by the suffrage movement in Britain such as silent sentinels and focused entirely on achieving a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage.<ref name="Dodd"/> [[Alva Belmont]], a multi-millionaire socialite at the time, was the largest donor to Paul's efforts. The NWP was accompanied by press coverage and the publication of the weekly newspaper, ''[[The Suffragist]]''.<ref name=Lakewood/>

====Silent Sentinels====
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In the [[1916 United States presidential election|U.S. presidential election]] of 1916, Paul and the [[National Woman's Party]] (NWP) campaigned in western states where women could already vote against the continuing refusal of President [[Woodrow Wilson]] and other incumbent [[United States Democratic Party|Democrats]] to actively support the Suffrage Amendment. Paul went to Mabel Vernon to help her organize a [[picketing]] campaign.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|title=Alice Paul: Equality for Women|last=Lunardini|first=Christine|publisher=Boulder: Westview Press|year=2013}}</ref> In January 1917, the NWP staged the first political protest and picketing at the [[White House]]. Picketing had been legalized by the 1914 [[Clayton Antitrust Act]], so the women were not doing anything illegal.<ref name=":14">{{Cite book |last=Walton |first=Mary |title=A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot |publisher=New York: St. Martin's Press |year=2010 |pages=}}</ref> The pickets, participating in a [[nonviolent]] [[civil disobedience]] campaign known as the "[[Silent Sentinels]]", dressed in white, silent and with 2,000 taking part over two years, maintained a presence six days a week, holding banners demanding the right to vote.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Threads of life: A history of the world through the eye of a needle|last=Hunter|first=Clare|publisher=Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton)|year=2019|isbn=978-1473687912|location=London|pages=132–133|oclc=1079199690}}</ref> Paul knew the only way they could accomplish their goal was by displaying the President's attitude toward suffrage, so picketing would achieve this in the best manner. Each day Paul would issue "General Orders", selecting women to be in charge and who would speak for the day. She was the "Commandant", and Mabel Vernon was the "Officer of the Day". Paul created state days to get volunteers for the pickets, such as Pennsylvania Day, Maryland Day, and Virginia Day. She also made special days for professional women, such as doctors, nurses, and lawyers.<ref name=":14"/>

After the United States entered [[World War I]] in April 1917, many people viewed the picketing Silent Sentinels as disloyal. Paul made sure the picketing would continue. In June 1917, picketers were arrested for "obstructing traffic". Over the next six months, many, including Paul, were convicted and incarcerated at the [[Occoquan Workhouse]] in Virginia (which later became the Lorton Correctional Complex) and the [[District of Columbia]] Jail.<ref name=Lakewood/>

When the public heard the news of the first arrests, some were surprised that leading suffragists and very well-connected women were going to prison for peacefully protesting. President Wilson received bad publicity from this event and was livid with the position he was forced into. He quickly pardoned the first women arrested on July 19, two days after they had been sentenced, but reporting on the arrests and abuses continued. For example, the ''Boston Journal'' stated, "The little band representing the NWP has been abused and bruised by government clerks, soldiers, and sailors until its efforts to attract the President's attention has sunk into the conscience of the whole nation."<ref name="Dodd"/>

Suffragists continued picketing outside the White House after the Wilson pardon and throughout World War I. Their banners contained such slogans as "Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty?"<ref name = Night>{{cite web|first=Louise|last=Bernikow|date=October 30, 2004|url=https://womensenews.org/story/our-story/041029/night-terror-leads-womens-vote-1917#.U073a1xbtuY|title=Night of Terror Leads to Women's Vote in 1917|website=Women's eNews}}</ref> and "We Shall Fight for the Things Which We Have Always Held Nearest Our Hearts—For Democracy, For The Right of Those Who Submit To Authority To Have A Voice in Their Own Governments." The capitalization of each word emphasized the gravity of the situation. With the hope of embarrassing Wilson, some of the banners quoted Wilson's own words against him.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Wilson|last=Berg|first=A. Scott|publisher=New York: Penguin Group|year=2013}}</ref> Wilson ignored these women, but his daughter [[Margaret Woodrow Wilson|Margaret]] waved in acknowledgment, a major victory for the protesters. Although the suffragists protested peacefully, their protests were sometimes violently opposed. While protesting, young men would harass and beat the women, with the police never intervening on behalf of the protesters. Police would even arrest other men who tried to help the women who were getting beaten. Even though they protested during wartime, they maintained public support by agitating peacefully. More protesters were arrested and sent to Occoquan or the District Jail throughout this time. Pardons were no longer given.<ref name="Dodd"/>

===Prison, hunger strikes, and passage of Nineteenth Amendment===
[[File:Alice paul.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Paul toasting (with grape juice) passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]] on August 26, 1920<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/|title=Who Was Alice Paul?|website=Alice Paul Institute|access-date=April 6, 2017|archive-date=September 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909083624/https://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/|url-status=dead}}</ref>]]
In solidarity with other activists in her organization, Paul purposefully strove to receive the seven-month jail sentence that started on October 20, 1917. She began serving her time in the District Jail.{{sfnp|Zahniser|Fry|2014|pp=279–281}}

Whether sent to Occoquan or the District Jail, the women were given no special treatment as political prisoners. They had to live in harsh conditions with poor sanitation, infested food, and dreadful facilities.<ref name="Dodd"/> In protest of the conditions at the District Jail, Paul began a [[hunger strike]].<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/11/07/102646016.pdf "Miss Alice Paul on Hunger Strike"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 7, 1917. Accessed June 25, 2012.</ref> This led to her being moved to the prison's psychiatric ward and being [[Force-feeding|force-fed]] raw eggs through a feeding tube. "Seems almost unthinkable now, doesn't it?" Paul told an interviewer from [[American Heritage (magazine)|''American Heritage'']] when asked about forced feeding, "It was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote."<ref>Gallagher, Robert S., "[https://www.americanheritage.com/content/%E2%80%9Ci-was-arrested-course%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D I Was Arrested, Of Course...]", [[American Heritage (magazine)|''American Heritage'']], February 1974, Volume 25, Issue 2. Interview of Alice Paul.</ref>

On November 14, 1917, the suffragists who were imprisoned at Occoquan endured brutality allegedly endorsed by prison authorities<ref name=":3" /> which became known as the "[[Night of Terror (event)|Night of Terror]]". The National Woman's Party (NWP) went to court to protest the treatment of the women such as [[Lucy Burns]], [[Dora Lewis]], and Alice Cosu, her cellmate in Occoquan Prison, who suffered a heart attack at seeing Dora's condition.<ref name=":3" /> The women were later moved to the District Jail where Paul languished. Despite the [[Police brutality in the United States|brutality]] that she experienced and witnessed, Paul remained undaunted. On November 27 and 28, all the suffragists were released from prison.{{sfnp|Zahniser|Fry|2014|pp=178–231}} Within two months, Wilson announced a bill on women's right to vote.<ref name=":3" />

=== Post-Suffrage ===
After Suffrage, the [[National Woman's Party|National Women's Party]] (NWP) continued to lobby in Congress and abroad, advocating for legal equality for women. Alice Paul and NWP members successfully lobbied to include equality provisions into the [[Charter of the United Nations|United Nation's charter]], such as the phrase "the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small." NWP is credited with drafting over 300 pieces of legislation that became law.<ref name=":14" /> Paul remained in leadership positions, officially and unofficially, until she moved to Connecticut in 1974.

===Equal Rights Amendment===
[[File:116th United States Congress H.J.Res. 038 (1st session) - Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment.pdf|alt=|thumb|upright=1.1|In January 2019, the House and Senate introduced resolutions to remove the deadline for ratification of the [[Equal Rights Amendment]], which was added in 1972 and which Paul accurately predicted would compromise the ERA's chances for success.]]
Once suffrage was achieved in 1920, Paul and some members of the National Woman's Party shifted attention to constitutional guarantees of equality through the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] (ERA), which was written by Paul and [[Crystal Eastman]].<ref name="Lakewood2">{{cite web |url=https://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/paul-ali.htm|title=Alice Paul Biography|work=Lakewood Public Library: Women in History|access-date=May 1, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619192543/https://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/paul-ali.htm|archive-date=June 19, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> Drafted and delivered to Congress in 1923, the original text of the Equal Rights Amendment—which Paul and the [[National Woman's Party]] dubbed the "[[Lucretia Mott]] Amendment" in honor of this antislavery and suffrage activist of an earlier generation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/women-protest/history5.html|title=Women of Protest: Photographs of the National Woman's Party |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>—read, "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Why We Lost the ERA |last=Mansbridge|first=Jane|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1984|isbn=0-226-50358-5|location=Chicago|pages=8}}</ref> In 1943, the amendment was renamed the "Alice Paul Amendment," and contained wording was changed to the version that still exists today: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alicepaul.org/era/|title=Alice Paul Institute: History of the Equal Rights Amendment|website=www.alicepaul.org/era/|access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> For Paul, the ERA had the same appeal as suffrage in that it was a constitutional amendment and a single-issue campaign that she believed could and should unite women around a common core goal. Paul understood the value of single-issue politics for building coalitions and securing success.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cott|first=Nancy F.|date=June 1984|title=Feminist Politics in the 1920s: The National Woman's Party|url=https://harvey.binghamton.edu/~hist266/era/cott2.htm|journal=Journal of American History|pages=7|access-date=March 13, 2019|archive-date=May 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508032010/https://harvey.binghamton.edu/~hist266/era/cott2.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Not everyone agreed about next steps or the ERA; from the start, the amendment had its critics. While Paul's activism in the years after suffrage centered on securing legal protections for women's equality in the U.S. and abroad, other activists and some members of the NWP focused on a wide range of issues from [[birth control]] and air conditioning to educating newly enfranchised women voters. Some of Paul's earlier allies in suffrage found the ERA troubling, especially since they believed it would erode protective legislation—laws about working conditions or maximum hours that protected women in the workplace. If the ERA guaranteed equality, opponents argued, protective legislation for women would be null and void. The rival [[League of Women Voters]] (LWV), which championed workplace legislation for women, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment. Paul and her cohorts, including a small group from the NWP, thought that sex-based workplace legislation restricted women's ability to compete for jobs with men and earn good wages.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Decades of Discontent: The Women's Movement, 1920–1940|last=Scharf|first=Lois|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1983|isbn=0313226946|location=Westport|pages=223}}</ref> In fact, Paul believed that protective legislation hurt women wage earners because some employers simply fired them rather than implement protections on working conditions that safeguarded women. Women were paid less than men, lost jobs requiring them to work late nights—often a prohibition under protective legislation—and had long been blocked from joining labor unions on par with men. She also believed that women should be treated under the law like men were and not as a class that required protection. To Paul, such protections were merely a form of entrenched "legalized inequality," a position shared by suffragist [[Harriot Stanton Blatch]].<ref name=":03">{{Cite journal|last=Fry|first=Amelia R.|date=September 1995|title=Alice Paul and the ERA|journal=Social Education|pages=285–289|id={{ProQuest|<!-- Add ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref> To Paul, the ERA was the most efficient way to ensure legal equality.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment: American Feminism Between the Wars|last=Becker|first=Susan D.|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1981|isbn=0-313-22818-3|location=Westport|pages=[https://archive.org/details/originsofequalri0000beck/page/20 20–21]|url=https://archive.org/details/originsofequalri0000beck/page/20}}</ref> Paul expected women workers to rally behind the ERA; some did, many did not. While early on, there was hope among NWP members that they could craft a bill that would promote equality while also guaranteeing labor protection for women, to Paul, that was a contradiction. What's more, she was surprised when [[Florence Kelley]], [[Ethel M. Smith|Ethel Smith]], [[Jane Addams]], and other suffragists parted with her and aligned with protective legislation.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Grounding of Modern Feminism|last=Cott|first=Nancy F.|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1987|isbn=0-300-04228-0|location=New Haven|pages=[https://archive.org/details/groundingofmoder00cott/page/120 120–125]|url=https://archive.org/details/groundingofmoder00cott/page/120}}</ref>

While Paul continued to work with the NWP and even served as president again in the 1940s, she remained steadfastly committed to women's equality as her singular mission. Along with the ERA, Paul worked on behalf of similar efforts in state legislation and international contexts. She helped ensure that the [[United Nations]] proclamations include equality for women. She hoped that this would encourage the United States to follow suit.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/alice-paul-i-was-arrested-course|title=Alice Paul: 'I Was Arrested, Of Course...'|last=Gallagher|first=Robert S.|date=February 1974|work=American Heritage|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref> Paul worked to change laws that had altered the status of a woman's citizenship based on that of her husband's. In the U.S., women who married men from foreign countries lost their U.S. citizenship and were considered by the U.S. to be citizens of whatever country their husbands were from. To Paul, this was a violation of equal rights. As such, she successfully worked on behalf of the international Equal Nationality Treaty in 1933 and in the U.S. for the successful passage of the Equal Nationality Act in 1934, which let women retain their citizenship upon marriage.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Alice Paul: The Quintessential Feminist|last=Willis|first=Joan L.|work=Feminist Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=1983|isbn=0-394-72197-7|editor-last=Spender|editor-first=Dale|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/feministtheorist00spen/page/289 289–290]|url=https://archive.org/details/feministtheorist00spen/page/289}}</ref> Just after the founding of the United Nations in 1945, Paul wanted to ensure that women's equality was a part of the organization's charter<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/bepa/learn/alice-paul.htm|title=Alice Paul|website=National Park Service; Belmont-Paul Women's Equality|access-date=March 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1500537|title=Paul, Alice|last=Hartmann|first=Susan M.|date=February 2000|website=American National Biography|doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500537|isbn=978-0-19-860669-7|access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref> and that its [[United Nations Commission on Human Rights|Commission on Human Rights]] included a focus on women's equality in its [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. She prevailed: the final version of the Declaration in 1948 opened with a reference to "equal rights of men and women".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment|last=Kops|first=Deborah|publisher=Calkins Creek|year=2017|isbn=978-1629793238}}</ref>

The ERA was introduced in Congress in 1923 and had various peaks and valleys of support in the following years as Paul continued to push for its passage. There were favorable committee reports in Congress in the late 1930s, and with more women working in men's jobs during the war, public support for the ERA also increased. In 1946, the ERA passed by three votes in the Senate, not the majority needed for it to advance. Four years later, it would garner the Senate votes but fail in the House, thereby halting it from moving forward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://now.org/resource/chronology-of-the-equal-rights-amendment-1923-1996/|title=Chronology of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1923–1996|website=National Organization for Women|date=January 21, 2014 |access-date=March 2, 2019}}</ref>

Paul was encouraged when women's movement activism gained steam in the 1960s and 1970s, which she hoped would spell victory for the ERA. When the bill finally passed Congress in 1972, Paul was unhappy about the changes in the wording of the ERA that now included time limits for securing its passage.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fry|first=Amelia|date=September 1995|title=Alice Paul and the ERA|journal=Social Education|pages=285–286|id={{ProQuest|<!-- Add ProQuest data here -->}}}}</ref> Advocates argued that this compromise—the newly added seven-year deadline for ratification in the states—enabled the ERA's passage in Congress, but Paul accurately predicted that the inclusion of a time limit would ensure its defeat. In addition, this version put enforcement power in the hands of the federal government only; Paul's original and 1943 reworded versions required both states and the federal government to oversee its provisions. Paul's version was politically insightful and strategic: politicians who believed in [[states' rights]], including many Southern states,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kyvig |first=David E. |year=1996 |title=Historical Misunderstandings and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment |jstor=3377881 |doi=10.2307/3377881 |journal=The Public Historian |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=54–55|doi-access= }}</ref> were more likely to support an ERA that gave states some discretion of enforcement authority than a version that did not.<ref name=":03" /> Paul was proved correct: while the ERA did receive a three-year extension from Congress, it remained three states short of those needed for ratification.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/equal-rights-amendment-illinois.html|title=The Equal Rights Amendment Was Just Ratified by Illinois. What Does That Mean?|last=Haag|first=Matthew|date=May 31, 2018|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=March 3, 2019}}</ref>

States continued to attempt to ratify the ERA long after the deadline passed, including [[Nevada]] in 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/21/520962541/nevada-on-cusp-of-ratifying-equal-rights-amendment-35-years-after-deadline|title=Nevada Ratifies The Equal Rights Amendment ... 35 Years After The Deadline|last=Dwyer|first=Colin|date=March 21, 2017|website=NPR}}</ref> and [[Illinois]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/can-a-dormant-proposed-constitutional-amendment-come-back-to-life|title=Can a dormant proposed constitutional amendment come back to life?|last=Bomboy|first=Scott|date=May 31, 2018|website=Constitution Daily|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref> In 2017 and again in 2019, the Senate and House introduced resolutions to remove the deadline from the ERA.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/will-congress-ever-ratify-equal-rights-amendment/580849/|title=The Equal Rights Amendment Strikes Again|last=Epps|first=Garrett|date=January 20, 2019|work=Atlantic|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2019/2/5/18213072/era-yes-state-of-the-union-equal-rights-amendment|title=Why women are wearing 'ERA Yes' buttons at the State of the Union|last=North|first=Anna|date=February 5, 2019|website=Vox|access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref> These or similar measures, if passed, according to some experts, would make the amendment viable again, although other experts dispute it.<ref>{{Citation | last=Neale | first=Thomas H. | title=The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: Contemporary Ratification Issues | date=May 9, 2013 | url=https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42979.pdf | publisher=Congressional Research Service}}</ref>

===1964 Civil Rights Act===
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Paul played a significant role in adding protection for women in [[Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964]], despite the opposition of liberals who feared it would end protective labor laws for women. The prohibition on sex discrimination was added to the Civil Rights Act by [[Howard W. Smith]], a powerful Virginia Democrat who chaired the House Rules Committee. Smith's amendment was passed by a teller vote of 168 to 133. For twenty years, Smith had sponsored the [[Equal Rights Amendment]] in the House because he believed in equal rights for women, even though he opposed equal rights for blacks. For decades, he had been close to the National Woman's Party, especially to Paul. She and other feminists had worked with Smith since 1945, trying to find a way to include sex as a protected civil rights category.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.jofreeman.com/lawandpolicy/titlevii.htm |first1=Jo |last1=Freeman |title=How 'Sex' Got into Title VII: Persistent Opportunism as a Maker of Public Policy |journal=Law and Inequality |volume=9 |issue=2 |date=March 1991 |pages=163–184 }}</ref>

=== Views on abortion ===
Alice Paul, like many early feminists and suffragists,<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2015-11-04 |title=The Suffragettes Would Not Agree With Feminists Today on Abortion |url=https://time.com/4093214/suffragettes-abortion/ |access-date=2024-02-09 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}</ref> was opposed to abortion. Paul was quoted as saying, "Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC – Ethics – Abortion: Early feminists |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/mother/early.shtml |access-date=2024-02-09 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Buchanan |first=Emily |date=2013-01-03 |title=Viewpoint: 'Pro-Life' and 'Feminism' Aren't Mutually Exclusive |url=https://ideas.time.com/2013/01/03/viewpoint-pro-life-and-feminism-arent-mutually-exclusive/ |access-date=2024-02-09 |magazine=Time |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
[[File:Alice Paul-Gravesite.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Paul's grave site in [[Cinnaminson, New Jersey]]]]
Paul had an active social life until she moved to Washington, D.C., in late 1912. She was an active member of the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.dar.org/archives/suffrage-march-centennial-anniversary-online-exhibition|title= Suffrage March Centennial Anniversary Online Exhibition |last= |first= |date= |website= [[Daughters of the American Revolution]]|access-date= October 12, 2024}}</ref> She enjoyed close relationships with women and befriended and occasionally dated men. Paul did not preserve private correspondence for the most part, so few details about her personal life are available. Once Paul devoted herself to winning the vote for women, she placed the suffrage effort first in her life. Nevertheless, Elsie Hill and Dora Kelly Lewis, two women whom she met early in her work for NAWSA, remained close to her all their lives. She knew William Parker, a scholar she met at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], for several years; he may have tendered a marriage proposal in 1917.{{sfnp|Zahniser|Fry|2014}}

Paul became a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] around the time of the suffrage campaign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt6f59n89c&doc.view=entire_text|title=Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment.|website=content.cdlib.org|access-date=October 22, 2019}}</ref>

In 1974, Paul suffered a stroke and was placed in a nursing home under the guardianship of her nephew, who depleted her estate. News of her penniless state reached friends, and a fund for indigent Quakers quickly aided Paul.<ref name=":14" /> Paul died at the age of 92 on July 9, 1977, at the Greenleaf Extension Home<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seniorhousingnet.com/seniorliving-detail/greenleaf-extension_28-e-main-st_moorestown_nj_08057-530176|title=Greenleaf Extension Home|access-date=December 3, 2018|archive-date=December 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005804/https://www.seniorhousingnet.com/seniorliving-detail/greenleaf-extension_28-e-main-st_moorestown_nj_08057-530176|url-status=dead}}</ref> a [[Quakers|Quaker]] facility in [[Moorestown, New Jersey]], less than a mile from her birthplace and childhood home.<ref name="Education" /> She is buried at Westfield Friends Burial Ground in [[Cinnaminson, New Jersey]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 36467–36468). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition</ref> Visitors frequently leave notes at her tombstone to thank her for her lifelong work on behalf of women's rights.

==Legacy==
[[File:Alice Paul-unc-rev.jpg|thumb|Paul depicted on the 2012 [[Presidential dollar coins#First Spouse program|First Spouse program]] ten-dollar coin as a substitute for a president having no spouse]]

[[File:Alice Paul dorm, Swarthmore College (2) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The Alice Paul Residence Hall at [[Swarthmore College]] in [[Swarthmore, Pennsylvania]], named in Paul's honor]]
Paul was posthumously inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]] in 1979,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/alice-paul/|title=Alice Paul|work=National Women's Hall of Fame}}</ref> and into the [[New Jersey Hall of Fame]] in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/alice_paul_inducted_into_nj_ha.html|title=Alice Paul inducted into NJ hall of fame alongside historic nemesis Woodrow Wilson|work=NJ.com|access-date=June 25, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>

Her alma mater, [[Swarthmore College]], named the Alice Paul Women's Center in her honor, a name in use from 1975 to the early 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/6Q031wrc |title=Women's Resource Center Records |last= |date= |website=TriCollege Libraries Archives and Manuscripts}}</ref> In 2004, Swarthmore opened the Alice Paul Residence Hall.<ref>[https://www.swarthmore.edu/campus-life/alice-paul-hall Alice Paul Hall], Swarthmore College</ref> [[Montclair State University]] in New Jersey has also named a dormitory (Alice Paul Hall) in her honor. On April 12, 2016, President [[Barack Obama]] designated Sewall-Belmont House as the [[Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument]], named for Alice Paul and [[Alva Belmont]].<ref name="hirschfeldnew">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/us/politics/obama-womens-equality-national-monument.html|title=House With Long Activist History Is Now Monument to Equality|last=Hirschfeld|first=Julie|date=April 12, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref><ref name="eilperinnew">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/11/obama-to-designate-a-national-monument-in-d-c-to-honor-womens-equality-tuesday/|title=A new memorial to tell 'the story of a century of courageous activism by American women'|last=Eilperin|first=Juliet|date=April 12, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160413_White_House_honors_Alice_Paul_s_Washington_headquarters.html|title=White House honors Alice Paul's Washington headquarters|last=Hefler|first=Jan|date=April 14, 2016|work=Philly.com}}</ref> The University of Pennsylvania, her doctoral alma mater, maintains the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/gsws/center/about|title=Alice Paul Center|last=University of Pennsylvania|date=January 21, 2020|website=Alice Paul Center}}</ref>

Two countries have honored her by issuing a postage stamp: [[Great Britain]] in 1981<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amazingwomenrock.com/alice-paul-suffragettepolitical-activist|title=Alice Paul (Suffragette/Political Activist)|last=Macaulay|first=Susan|website=amazingwomenrock.com|language=en-gb|access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref> and the United States in 1995. The U.S. stamp was the $0.78 [[Great Americans series]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arago.si.edu/category_2043117.html|title=78-Cent Paul|date=July 6, 1995|website=Arago: People, Postage & The Post|access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref>

Paul appeared on a United States half-ounce $10 gold coin in 2012 as part of the First Spouse Gold Coin Series. A provision in the [[Presidential $1 Coin Program]]<ref>see {{USStatute|109|145|119|2664|2005|12|22}}</ref> directs that Presidential spouses be honored. As President [[Chester A. Arthur]] was a widower, Paul is shown representing "Arthur's era".<ref name="Alice Paul USC">Alice Paul is explicitly specified in {{uscsub|31|5112|o|3|D|i|II}}</ref> The [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Treasury Department]] announced in 2016 that an image of Paul will appear on the back of a newly designed $10 bill along with [[Lucretia Mott]], [[Sojourner Truth]], [[Susan B. Anthony]], [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], and the [[1913 Woman Suffrage Procession]] that Paul initiated and organized.

In 1987, a group of New Jersey women raised the money to purchase Paul's papers when they came up for auction so that an archive could be established. Her papers and memorabilia are now held by the [[Schlesinger Library]] at [[Harvard University]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collection/alice-paul|title=Alice Paul|date=April 12, 2016|work=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|access-date=June 25, 2018|language=en|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121065614/https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collection/alice-paul|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in Washington, D.C. In 1990, the same group, now the Alice Paul Institute, purchased the brick farmhouse, [[Paulsdale]], in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, where Paul was born. Paulsdale is a [[National Historic Landmark]] and is on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places. The Alice Paul Institute keeps her legacy alive with educational exhibits about her life, accomplishments, and advocacy for gender equality.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://march.rutgers.edu/permanent-exhibit-opens-at-alice-paul-institute/|title=Permanent Exhibit Opens at Alice Paul Institute – Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities|website=march.rutgers.edu|access-date=June 28, 2019|archive-date=February 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223071804/https://march.rutgers.edu/permanent-exhibit-opens-at-alice-paul-institute/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Institute" />

[[Hilary Swank]] played Paul in the 2004 film ''[[Iron Jawed Angels]]'', which portrayed the 1910s women's suffrage movement for passage of the 19th Amendment.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://suffrageandthemedia.org/source/iron-jawed-angels-film-suffrage-activists/|title=Iron Jawed Angels, a Film About Suffragist Alice Paul|work=Women's Suffrage and the Media|access-date=June 25, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2018, Alice Paul was a central character in an episode of ''[[Timeless (American TV series)|Timeless]]'' (Season 2, Episode 7)<ref>{{Citation|last=Aarniokoski|first=Douglas|title=Mrs. Sherlock Holmes|date=April 29, 2018|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6885540/|others=Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett|access-date=May 1, 2018}}</ref> which alludes to Paul giving an impassioned speech to President Woodrow Wilson during a march that ends in police violence upon the suffragist marchers. According to history, Paul was at the event and was arrested, but there is no evidence that she spoke to Wilson on that day.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/elementary-lesson-womens-suffrage-timeless-season-2-episode-7-recapped-180968915/|title=An Elementary Lesson in Women's Suffrage: 'Timeless' Season 2, Episode 7, Recapped|last=Kaufman|first=Rachel|work=Smithsonian|access-date=May 1, 2018|language=en}}</ref> In 2022, ''[[Suffs (musical)|Suffs]]'', a musical written by [[Shaina Taub]], premiered at [[The Public Theater]] with Alice Paul as a main character.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suffs (Off-Broadway, Public Theater/Newman Theater, 2022) |url=https://playbill.com/production/suffs-off-broadway-public-theater-newman-theater-2022 |access-date=April 9, 2022 |website=Playbill |language=en}}</ref>

On January 11, 2016, [[Google Doodle]] commemorated her 131st birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/alice-pauls-131st-birthday/|title=Alice Paul's 131st Birthday|date=January 11, 2016}}</ref>
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== See also ==
* ''[[Iron Jawed Angels]]'', 2004 film about Alice Paul and [[Lucy Burns]] and their movement, which resulted in the passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]].
* [[List of civil rights leaders]]
* [[List of suffragists and suffragettes]]
* [[List of women's rights activists]]
* [[Timeline of women's suffrage]]
* [[Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States]]
* [[List of suffragists and suffragettes#Major suffrage organizations|Women's suffrage organizations]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Baker, Jean H. ''Sisters: The Lives of American Suffragists.'' New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.
* _____. ''Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
* Butler, Amy E. ''Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel M. Smith in the ERA Debate, 1921–1929.'' Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
* Cahill, Bernadette. ''Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote: The First Civil Rights Struggle of the 20th Century.'' Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2005.
* Cassidy, Tina. ''Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote'' (2019).
* {{cite journal |last=Cott |first=Nancy F. |title=Feminist politics in the 1920s: The National Woman's Party |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=71 |issue=1 |year=1984 |pages=43–68 |doi=10.2307/1899833 |jstor=1899833}}
* Cullen-Dupont, Kathryn. ''American Women Activists' Writings: An Anthology, 1637–2002.'' New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
* Dodd, Lynda G. "Parades, Pickets, and Prison: Alice Paul and the Virtues of Unruly Constitutional Citizenship." ''Journal of Law and Politics'' 24 (2008): 339–433. [https://www.lyndagdodd.com/2_Research/Research_4_Dodd_FINAL_Alice%20Paul%20Paper.pdf online]
* Evans, Sara M. ''Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America.'' New York: The Free Press, 1989.
* {{cite journal |last=Graham |first=Sally Hunter |title=Woodrow Wilson, Alice Paul, and the Woman Suffrage Movement |journal=Political Science Quarterly |volume=98 |issue=4 |pages=665–679 |url=https://72.22.72.207/History102/Articles/Alice%20Paul2.pdf |doi=10.2307/2149723 |jstor=2149723 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606233722/https://72.22.72.207/History102/Articles/Alice%20Paul2.pdf |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |year=1983 }}
* Hartmann, Susan M. "Paul, Alice"; [https://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00537.html; ''American National Biography Online'' Feb. 2000] Access June 5, 2014
* {{cite journal |last1=Hawranick |first1=Sylvia |first2=Joan M. |last2=Doris |first3=Robert |last3=Daugherty |title=Alice Paul: Activist, advocate, and one of ours |journal=Affilia |year=2008 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=190–196 |doi=10.1177/0886109908314332|s2cid=144475569 }}
* Hill, Jeff. ''Defining Moments: Women's Suffrage.'' Detroit: Omnigraphics, Inc., 2006.
* Irwin, Inez Haynes. ''The Story of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party.'' Fairfax: Denlinger's Publishers, LTD, 1964.
* Leleux, Robert. "Suffragettes March on Washington." ''The American Prospect'' 24 (2013): 81.
* Lunardini, Christine. ''Alice Paul: Equality for Women.'' Boulder: Westview Press, 2013.
* _______. ''From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1910–1928.'' New York: New York University Press, 1986.
* {{cite journal |last=McGerr |first=Michael |title=Political Style and Woman's Power, 1830–1930 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=77 |issue=3 |year=1990 |pages=864–885 |doi=10.2307/2078989 |jstor=2078989}}
* Olson, Tod. "One Person, One Vote." ''Scholastic Update'' 127 (1994): 15
** Piott, Steven L. '' American Reformers, 1870–1920: Progressives in Word and Deed'' (2006); chapter 12 is on Paul.
* Stevens, Doris. ''Jailed for Freedom.'' New York: Liverwright Publishing Corporation, 1920.
* Stillion Southard, Belinda Ann. "The National Woman's Party's Militant Campaign for Woman Suffrage: Asserting Citizenship Rights through Political Mimesis." (2008). [https://hdl.handle.net/1903/8759 PhD thesis, U of Maryland online]
* {{cite book |last=Walton |first=Mary |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780230611757 |url-access=registration |title=A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-230-61175-7 }}
* {{cite journal |last=Ware |first=Susan |title=The book I couldn't write: Alice Paul and the challenge of feminist biography |journal=Journal of Women's History |volume=24 |issue=2 |year=2012 |pages=13–36 |doi=10.1353/jowh.2012.0022|s2cid=143954742 }}
* Willis, Jean L. "Alice Paul: The Quintessential Feminist," in ''Feminist Theorists,'' ed. Dale Spender (1983).
* {{cite book|last1=Zahniser|first1=J. D.|last2=Fry|first2=Amelia R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xit8AwAAQBAJ|title=Alice Paul: Claiming Power|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|year=2014|isbn=978-019-9958429}}
* {{cite book|author=Deborah Kops|title=Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HCPQDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT96|year= 2017|publisher=Boyds Mills Press|isbn=978-1-62979-795-3|pages=96–}}

==External links==
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* [https://www.alicepaul.org/ The Alice Paul Institute]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060619192543/https://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/paul-ali.htm Alice Paul] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20060604030835/https://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/index.html Lakewood Public Library: Women In History]
* [https://sewallbelmont.org/ The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum – Home of the historic National Woman's Party]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081222211947/https://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/paul_alice.html Biographical sketch] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]
* [https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3x34mz4v Manuscript version of Paul's PhD dissertation], "The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania" at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]
* [https://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00207 Papers, 1785–1985.] [https://radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
* "[https://www.americanheritage.com/content/%E2%80%9Ci-was-arrested-course%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D I Was Arrested, Of Course...]", [[American Heritage (magazine)|''American Heritage'']], February 1974, Volume 25, Issue 2. Interview of Alice Paul by Robert S. Gallagher.
* [https://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6f59n89c/ Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment, An Interview Conducted by Amelia R. Fry, 1979, The Bancroft Library]
* Michals, Debra. [https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/alice-paul "Alice Paul"]. National Women's History Museum. 2015.

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