Alice Paul American feminist and social reformer

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Alice Paul, 1919. Born 1885 died 1977. American feminist and social reformer, born into a Quaker family in Moorestown, New Jersey. She was educated at Swarthmore College and Pennsylvania University, where she gained a PhD in 1912. She spent some years in England, becoming involved in the militant branch of the suffrage movement and was arrested several times and imprisoned. From 1912, back in the USA, she formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Her forceful personality attracted wide support and equally wide mistrust. She devoted her whole career to fighting for equal rights for women.

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