Alice Paul, is known for working with the women's suffrage. She was one of the reasons why the 9th Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment were passed. She joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association(NAWSA) because of her beliefs for equal rights. This lead to the beginning of the National Women's Party(NWP). Alice Paul did everything she could to get the rights for women to vote. In 1977, she organized a march in Washington D.C to show how bad her and other women wanted the chance to have a say in what goes. After, the 9th amendment was passed she wanted more. She started to push for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Equal Rights Amendment, like the 19th amendment, took a while to pass. It finally passed in 1970, but not enough states ratified it. It took about 10 years for it to be passed. But, no matter what happened weather she was arrested, beat up, or had to starve herself, she never stopped trying to make men rights as equal as women's.
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