Heroes are people who change the world for the better. They are people who never give up when life gets tough. Alice Paul’s work with the women’s rights movement made her a true hero. She endlessly fought for equality for women her whole life. She never gave up despite the many roadblocks on her journey. Alice Paul, born on January 11,1885 grew up on a small farm in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. “The foundation of her activism was the Quaker tradition of public service and promotion of gender equality.” (“Alice Paul”). She lived with her three other siblings and her mom and dad. While Paul grew up, her parents did not allow music in their house, “time was believed better spent in less worldly pursuits” (“Who is Alice Paul”). Paul graduated from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in the year 1905. She …show more content…
She campaigned women's rights in England and then came back to America and started her own campaign. She started her campaign with a giant suffrage parade. The parade took place in Pennsylvania, on Pennsylvania Avenue, before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913. On January 10, 1917 Paul and a dozen other women protested in front of the White House gates.These women became the first people to ever protest the white house. The women called themselves the “Silent Sentinels”, they carried banners asking for women's liberty. A year after women started picketing Wilson proclaimed his support for a women's suffrage amendment. “When the suffrage amendment was signed into law on August 26, 1920, Paul had won more than the vote.” (“Who is Alice Paul?”). Then in 1923 she started working towards equality for everyone. “In 1923, she introduce the first Equal Rights Amendment in Congress and in later decades worked on the civil rights bill and fair employment practices.” (“Alice Paul Biography”). This proves how dedicatedly she worked for equality of all