Alice Paul portrait
Permanent ID:
13723Call number:
Am. 8996Image Description:
Portrait of Alice Paul from the Caroline Katzenstein papers [Am .8996]. Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Along with Lucy Burns and others, Paul organized the events, such as the Silent Sentinels, which led the successful campaign that resulted in its passage in 1920. After 1920 Paul spent a half century as leader of the National Woman's Party, which fought for her Equal Rights Amendment to secure constitutional equality for women. She won a large degree of success with the inclusion of women as a group protected against discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She insisted that her National Woman's Party focus on the legal status of all women and resisted calls to address issues like birth control and the suppression of African American women's votes.This digital record contains two images of one photographic portrait.
Inscription:
Alice Paul, Chairman of the National Woman's Party, last of the Quaker leaders of suffrage. Miss Paul came to Washington in 1913, unknown and without money. One hundred votes were lacking to pass the amendment in Congress, both political parties were opposed to it and President Wilson said he had given suffrage "no thought." In seven years Miss Paul has raised and spent over $500,000 for woman's enfranchisement, and established the National Woman's Party with branches in every state. The suffrage amendment passed in Congress by a majority of 42 votes has now been ratified by 36 states and political parties are contending for the honor of its success.This digital record contains one image that depicts one portrait from folder 8 (labeled as: "Photographs of Suffragists, M-W circa 1900 - circa 1950"). (right of portrait)
Edmundston, Washington D.C. (bottom-right of photograph)
Address:
WashingtonFormat:
PhotographsCollection:
Caroline Katzenstein papersRelated Person or Organization:
Alice Paul, 1885-1977 (depicted)Library of Congress Subjects:
Suffragettes [info:lc/vocabulary/graphicMaterials/tgm010342]
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977 [info:lc/authorities/names/n85388677]
Quaker women [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85147407]
Suffragists [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85129648]
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977 [info:lc/authorities/names/n85388677]
Quaker women [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85147407]
Suffragists [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85129648]