Nov 11, 2005 11:09
MY NAME IS ALICE PAUL!!!
MY NAAAAAME IS ALLLLICE PAUL!!!
ALICE PAUL!!!
ALICE!!!
IN WONDERLAND….
1. A Ph.D. student at the School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
2. Paul joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and her activities resulted in her being arrested and imprisoned three times. Like other suffragettes she went on hunger strike and was forced-fed mushrooms and other food.
3. In 1913 Paul joined with Lucy Burns to form the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (CUWS) and attempted to introduce the militant methods used by the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain. This included organizing huge demonstrations and the daily picketing of the White House
4. In January, 1918, Woodrow Wilson announced that women's suffrage was urgently needed as a "war measure". However, it was not until 1920 that the 19th Amendment secured the vote for women.
5. 1938 founded the World Party for Equal Rights for Women
6. lobbied for references to sex equality in the preamble to the United Nations Charter and in the 1964 Civil Rights Act
7. ERA to abortion rights, as did most early feminists. Paul called abortion "the ultimate exploitation of women."