Placards at the White House

Fed up with the inaction of conservative suffragists, Alice Paul decided on the highly unorthodox strategy of pressuring the president

Source: AmericanHeritage.com
Author: Jean H. Baker
Publication Date: May 01, 2010

Article Abstract:

Goucher History Professor Jean H. Baker profiles Alice Paul, the leader and founder of the National Woman's Party who led a picket protest at the White House – a radical move in 1917 – for the suffrage movement.  

Lead:

By New Year’s Day 1917, Alice Paul, leader and founder of the National Woman’s Party, had made up her mind. Ever since coming home from studying abroad in 1910, the University of Pennsylvania PhD in political science had observed the ineffective American women’s suffrage movement with increasing impatience.

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