Alice Stokes Paul

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1885 – 1977

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Who was Alice Stokes Paul?

Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist and women's rights activist. As the main leader and strategist of the campaign, and along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, which prohibits discrimination in the right to vote.

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Born
Jan 11, 1885
Mount Laurel Township
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Swarthmore College
  • American University
  • Washington College of Law
  • University of Pennsylvania
Lived in
  • Ridgefield
Died
Jul 9, 1977
Moorestown

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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