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"We can only express ourselves by action."
The National Woman's Party (NWP), originally known as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, injected renewed vitality into the American suffrage campaign. Inspired by their British counterparts -- but frustrated by lack of progress -- founders Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and thousands of other women engaged in radical and oftentimes dangerous tactics to publicly challenge and pressure male politicians opposed to women's suffrage. Focused on securing a constitutional amendment to give women to vote, the NWP demanded rights women were entitled to as citizens. As the first American civil rights group to successfully use sustained, nonviolent resistance, the NWP designed a campaign that combined traditional lobbying with innovative militant actions, and set the stage for the next phase of the women's equality movement in the United States. |