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Alice Paul
In 1912 Alice Paul returned from England and energized the American suffrage movement with confrontational techniques, including hunger strikes, learned from British suffragettes. Establishing the Congressional Union within NAWSA, she alternately inspired and irritated its leaders. In 1917 Paul formed the National Woman's Party (NWP). The two organizations became bitter rivals. A fearless tactician, Paul led NWP picketing of the White House (incurring imprisonment) and pressuring President Woodrow Wilson and Congress to support woman suffrage. Paul authored the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923. |