Alice Paul was a suffragist, a prominent campaign leader advocating for the Nineteenth Amendment, and a co-writer of the Equal Rights Amendment. She attended university at Swarthmore College and also received a master’s degree and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She spent time in England as well, studying at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham and at the London School of Economics while also being involved with the British women’s suffrage movement. She was part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, but eventually broke with the group and went on to found the National Women’s Party. In this interview, Paul discusses her childhood and education, her work with the British women’s suffrage movement, her return to the US and involvement with American suffrage campaigns, breaking with NAWSA and forming the NWP, the Nineteenth Amendment and campaigning for the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Alice Paul: Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment
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Paul, Alice. "Alice Paul: Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment." Interview by Amelia Fry in 1972 and 1973. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1976. Interview date(s) 1972
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