Alice Paul took over NAWSA’s moribund Congressional Committee at age 27, later forming her own organization, the Congressional Union. Deeming NAWSA’s approach of amending state constitutions slow and inadequate, she demanded federal action. This photograph is from 1915, two years after the split. The following year she merged the Congressional Union into the National Woman’s Party, which made Woodrow Wilson the focus of its peaceful protests for nearly four years—in return for which she and NWP members suffered extraordinary abuse in prison.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: 1915
Alice Paul took over NAWSA’s moribund Congressional Committee at age 27, later forming her own organization, the Congressional Union. Deeming NAWSA’s approach of amending state constitutions slow and inadequate, she demanded federal action. This photograph is from 1915, two years after the split. The following year she merged the Congressional Union into the National Woman’s Party, which made Woodrow Wilson the focus of its peaceful protests for nearly four years—in return for which she and NWP members suffered extraordinary abuse in prison.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: 1915