Penn Quarter in Washington, District of Columbia — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Alice Paul
1885 - 1977
By Devry Becker Jones, October 19, 2019
1. Alice Paul Marker
Suffragist Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) advocated a more militant strategy for the woman suffrage movement, which was decades old when she came along, and short on victories. With others she founded the National Woman's Party.She and her colleagues soon organized a huge demonstration for March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's first presidential inauguration. Thousands of women came to Washington to march along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, and the demonstrations continued until they'd converted Wilson to their cause. The 19th Amendment, granting women the vote, was ratified in 1920.
Centennial
of the 19th
Constitutional
Amendment, which
guarantees
and protects
a woman's
right to vote
Erected 2019 by Charles Bergen Studios, funded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Public Art Building Communities Grant and the Downtown Business Improvement District. (Marker Number 5850-2019.)
Location. 38°
By Devry Becker Jones, October 19, 2019
2. Alice Paul Marker
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Julia Ward Howe (within shouting distance of this marker); The New Willard (within shouting distance of this marker); Willard Inter-Continental Hotel (within shouting distance of this marker); The Peace Convention (within shouting distance of this marker); National Press Club (within shouting distance of this marker); Jean Monnet (within shouting distance of this marker); Reserve Officers Association of the United States (within shouting distance of this marker); John J. Pershing, General of the Armies (1860-1948) (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Penn Quarter.
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