Born 11 January 1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey Died 9 July 1977
in Moorestown, New Jersey U. S. American Women’s Rights Activist
30th anniversary of death 9 July 2007 At first a shy girl, this
daughter of a well-to-do liberal Quaker family from Pennsylvania
apprenticed herself to the English suffragists Emmeline and
Christabel Pankhurst and evolved to become the “only truly
charismatic” leader of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the
20th-century. With the Woman’s Party, which she founded in 1916,
she brought new life to a somewhat weary women’s movement; and
through her radical methods the bold and brilliant strategist,
who dedicated her entire life to the woman’s cause, also became
a pioneer of civil disobedience. Alice Paul enjoyed an education
unusually impressive for its time: in 1905 she obtained her
bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, then continued on at
Columbia and the University of Birmingham (England), earning a
doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. After this she
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