Alice Paul & Women's Equality
Title: Alice Paul & Women's Equality
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 928 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Alice Paul & Women's Equality
Alice Paul was born on January 11,1885,
in Moorestown, New Jersey. Her father, who
died when Alice was sixteen, was a businessman,
banker, and property owner. The Pauls lived in the
small Quaker community of Moorestown. One of
the beliefs of the Quakers was equality of the sexes.
As a young girl, Alice attended the Quaker suffrage
meetings with her mother.
Alice Pauls' father left them enough
money so she could attend the exclusive Swarthmore
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of sex."
Living in Switzerland, she encouraged
an Equal Rights Treaty and a World code of Law.
Equality was then written into the United Nations
Charter.
Paul fought for equal rights the rest of
her life, nationaly and internationally. In1977, at
the age of 93, she died in her childhood town of
Moorestown.
Alice Paul was a remarkable, unstop-
pable feminist and social reformer, who paved the
road we now walk.
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