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National Woman's Party Alice Paul Lucy Burns National Woman's Party
The journey to women's voting rights and the Nineteenth Amendment
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National Woman's Party Members of the National Woman's Party watching as Alice Paul sews a star onto their ratification flag; each star represented a state's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

National Woman’s Party

American political party
Also known as: Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, NWP
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National Woman’s Party (NWP), American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffrage work be concentrated on the federal,...

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