A Woman's Crusade Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

by Walton, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780230611757
• ISBN10: 0230611753
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-17
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American suffrage movement. Calling themselves "Silent Sentinels," she and her followers were the first protestors to picket the White House. Arrested and jailed, they went on hunger strikes and were force-fed and brutalized. Years before Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent resistance, and decades before civil rights demonstrations, Alice Paul practiced peaceful civil disobedience in the pursuit of equal rights for women.With her daring and unconventional tactics, Alice Paul eventually succeeded in forcing President Woodrow Wilson and a reluctant U.S. Congress to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Here at last is the inspiring story of the young woman whose dedication to women's rights made that long-held dream a reality.

Author Biography

Mary Walton is a veteran journalist who wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer for 20 years.  She was a member of the Pulitzer-prize winning team that covered the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. The author of several books including For Love of Money and Car: A Drama of the American Workplace, she lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. ix
Prologue	p. 1
Quaker, Social Worker, Suffragette!	p. 5
ôThrilling Timesö	p. 21
Philadelphia Story	p. 36
Marching Where the Men March	p. 53
ôI Did Not Know Men Could Be Such Fiendsö	p. 68
The Split	p. 81
Summer of Discontent	p. 93
Young Women Go West	p. 102
Field Trip	p. 110
Miss Paul and Mr. Wilson	p. 125
A Martyr Is Born	p. 139
Silent Sentinels	p. 146
ôWomen Are Always Hippodroning Around Hereö	p. 162
Banner Days	p. 171
Pardon to Prison	p. 182
Night of Terror	p. 193
Stalemate	p. 208
Victory!	p. 225
Forward into Light	p. 237
Epilogue	p. 246
Note on Major Sources	p. 253
Notes	p. 254
Index	p. 275
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