Alice Paul was a women’s rights activist and women’s suffragist. She strived for an amendment to be established that granted women the right to vote. Alice Paul held position with the National American Woman Suffrage Association and later cofound a new group called The National Women’s Party. She organized radical protests for women’s voting rights at the White House and was jailed. While imprisoned she took commence on a hunger strike. Her actions were contributing factors that lead to the formation of the nineteenth amendment. In her later years, Alice Paul led the National Women’s Party to take stand for an equal rights amendment along with other issues on gender discrimination. Even though Alice Paul’s Equal Rights Amendment wasn’t carried
