Magnifying Your

Knowledge of

Noteworthy Women

Pt. 1

So you've heard of Susan B. Anthony...

The National Women's History Museum notes that Susan B. Anthony advocated equal pay for equal work and became one of the best-known leaders of the women's suffrage movement. She formed the National Woman Suffrage Association as well as co-founded the American Equal Rights Association. Though she did not attend the Seneca Falls Convention, she did bring attention to the suffrage movement in 1872, when she was fined $100 for trying to vote.

...but have you also heard of Alice Paul?

According to the National Women's History Museum, Alice Paul figured prominently in ensuring the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. As an active member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (which later split, causing her to join the National Woman's Party), Paul helped organize numerous events to support women's suffrage, including her largest march just one day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration. It would take another 5 years before Wilson announced his support for women's suffrage.