Alice Pankhurst Biography

Introduction
“There will never be a new world until women are apart of it.” This is a quote that Alice Paul said. Alice was from a quaker family and was taught at an early age that men and women were equal. She soon started on her journey of rallies and walks to become a very well known leader of women’s rights. Although she had some hardships, she overcame them and kept going with the dream of having equal rights in her heart.

She was a women's suffragist who felt strongly for her subject and was willing to fight for it. Her parents taught her at a young age to stand up for herself when she wasn’t being treated equally. She fought for women’s rights because she knew that women are capable of doing anything that men are. This belief lead
Alice went and talked to the girl. The girl was Christabel Pankhurst. She had been taught her actions by her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst. Emmeline was England’s most effective suffragette. They were a team in England, doing anything they could to get equal rights. Christabel and her mom were the co-founders of WSPU( Women’s Social and Political Union) They were leading this suffragette party and making a big bang in England. Alice learned about the kinds of things that they would do to get people to listen to
Once in America again she was a changed woman. She had much more passion towards the topic. She went to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She started out here, but then left with Lucy Burns to go to the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. They later renamed it National Woman’s Rights Party.

Alice was part of a group there that was known as the “Silent Sentinels.” This group went and picketed the white house. After this seen Alice was put in jail for October and November. In 1919, the house and the senate passed the nineteenth amendment. At this point all of Alice’s hard work had payed off. The nineteenth amendment states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
This was what Alice had been working for, the words that would make it all worth it. She finally got to hear them. Alice Paul joined the many people that we have to thank today for why women can vote. Today Women are practically equals to men. They still may not make quite as much money as they do, but we are getting there. It is because of these women that women get to even come