In 1919 the suffrage amendment gained momentum after twenty-eight states gave some amount of suffrage to women. The sixty-sixth congress convened in May 1919 with a Republican majority in both houses. On May 21, 1919, the House passed the amendment y a significant majority. The Senate passed the amendment on June 4, 1919. After the amendment passed Congress, thirty-six states needed to ratify the amendment in order for it to become a part of the Constitution. In order to keep the suffrage an image in the nation, Paul created the “Betsey Ross of Suffrage,” a flag that would have a star sewn on it each time a state ratified the amendment (Zahniser). By March 1920 one state needed to ratify the amendment. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the …show more content…
From 1920 to 1940 the NWP draft six hundred pieces of legislation, of which three hundred passed (Walton). In 1923, Paul wrote the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the ERA was introduced to Congress in 1923. The amendment did not pass, and was introduced to Congress every year for almost fifty years after 1923 (Walton). In 1972, the ERA passed Congress, but it was not ratified by the states. In 1940, Alice Paul provided housing for a Jewish family who had fled from Austria. Paul is credited with saving eleven Europeans during World War II (Walton). Paul successfully added a ban on gender discrimination in the workforce in Title VII of the 1967 Civil Rights Act. In 1975, Paul suffered a stroke, and was moved into a nursing home in Moorestown, New Jersey, where she received care from Hicksite Quakers like the ones she was raised with. During Alice Paul’s last months, she would tell a young nurse, “What was I going to do to further the cause of women? You, you, you young people are the ones who should take up the mantle,” (Walton). Paul’s encouragement for the young nurse to take up the battle to change the world was similar to the encouragement Paul received from professor Jesse Holmes at Swarthmore College. Alice Paul died on July 9,