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Reminiscences of Alice Paul : oral history, 1973.

Creator: Paul, Alice, 1885-1977.
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
(see all project interviews)
Phys. Desc. :Transcript 648 pages Miscellaneous papers relationg to oral history
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Feminist

Scope and Contents

Quaker background; Swarthmore College; social work, New York City; work with Pankhursts in England; return to United States, PhD in economics, 1912; leadership of suffrage movement, National American Woman's Suffrage Association, Congressional Union; Shafroth-Palmer amendment and split with National American Woman's Suffrage Association; campaigning methods: lobbying, presidential delegations, imprisonment; formation of National Woman's Party, President Wilson's endorsement, Senate struggle, ratification process; 1923, Equal Rights Amendment: wording, lobbying, publicity methods; opposition from American Association of University Women, Women's Bureau; factions within National Woman's Party; equal nationality rights; impressions of Maud Younger, Eva Belmont, Anita Pollitzer, Mabel Vernon, Lucy Burns, Jeannette Rankin

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