USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alice Stokes Paul was born on January 11, 1885, to William Mickle Paul I (1850–1902) and Tacie Parry Paul (1859–1930) at Paulsdale, Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. She was a namesake for Alice Stokes (1821–1889), her maternal grandmother and the wife of William Parry (1817–1888).

Detailed explanation-2: -NAWSA primarily focused on state-by-state campaigns; Paul preferred to lobby Congress for a constitutional amendment. Such differences led Paul and others to split with NAWSA and form the National Woman’s Party. Borrowing from her British counterparts, Paul organized parades and pickets in support of suffrage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Founded in the crucial final years of the suffrage movement by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, the National Woman’s Party played a groundbreaking role in securing passage of the 19th Amendment and women’s Constitutional right to vote.

Detailed explanation-4: -In prison, Paul and her fellow activists began hunger strikes to bring attention to their imprisonment. British authorities force-fed the women by putting tubes down their through their nostrils. They would often vomit through the violent process.

Detailed explanation-5: -’Silent Sentinels’ and the Right to Vote Undeterred, and disagreeing with tactics followed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Paul and Burns formed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913, which then founded the National Woman’s Party in 1916 (the groups merged in 1917).