American women can never forget Alice Paul and her fights for women’s rights. Alice Paul was born in New Jersey. Alice turned politically active while studying in London, and joined the movement for women’s right to vote. She was jailed and went on a hunger strike.
Alice Paul returned to the United States, and threw herself into the American women’s struggle for the right to vote. She served as the Chair of the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. However, she left the party, and joined the Congressional Union of Woman Suffrage. The party later became the National Women’s Party. This party used dramatic tactics, and even picketed the White House. Alice was jailed, and went on a hunger strike in protest. Women won the right to vote in 1920. Thereafter, Alice Paul fought to gain equal rights for women, until she was felled by a stroke in 1974.