Alice paul

The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade - The Atlantic

When everyone wore a hat and carried a hankie (detail of a larger photo - see below)

Ninety-four years ago today, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States took effect, enshrining American women’s right to vote. Fifty years later, in the midst of a new wave of feminist activism, Congress designated 26 August as Women’s Equality Day in the United States.

The Getty Images Gallery has selected the images from its Hulton Archive, each telling its own story and forming a wider narrative on the history of photography for its 'Jewels of the Archive' exhibition.

Alice Paul saw the 19th ammendment ratified in 1920 and continued to fight for women's rights until 1977 when she died!

1 photographic print.

You want to know what I’m sick of? (It’s a rhetorical question because I’m going to tell you anyway). I am sick of television personalities, politicians and

Alice Paul Quote – Equality

Alice Paul, American women’s suffrage leader and women’s rights activist who first proposed an equal rights amendment to the United States Constitution and who influenced the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. She was long considered the elder stateswoman of the feminist movement.