Alice Paul’s Fight for Suffrage

This Alice Paul’s Fight for Suffrage page is part of the PBS for kid’s website. PBS for Kids, which is probably best known for Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, and Reading Rainbow also, has an area called WayBack, which looks at U.S history for Kids. Part of this site is called Women & The Vote. This site gives a brief history of Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party in their fight for suffrage. Although this site is created for children, it gives a nice background, good pictures, and most importantly a link to suggested readings,which include videos and non-fiction and fiction books.

Alice Paul Institute Website

The Alice Paul Institute, which is a non profit organization located in Mount Laural, New Jersey. Its loacation, called Paulsdale, is a National Historic Landmark, since it was the home where Alice Paul was born and raised. The site is clearly in its beginning stages. It provides information about The Alice Paul Institute and also gives details on Paulsdale and Alice Paul herself. It is not the best source to find about the National Woman’s Party or Alice Paul, but it is a nice site to view before going to a tour or event at The Alice Paul Institute.

Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment

Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment site is part of the Online Archive of California . The site is an archive of The Suffragist Oral History Project, which is a set of interviews with leaders of the woman’s suffragist movement. This site is unique because it provides a transcript of an oral interview given by Alice Paul, leader of the National Woman’s Party and author of the Equal Rights Amendment. 1) Family and Education 2) The USA Suffrage Campaign 3) The Suffrage Campaign Reviewed 4) The Equal Rights Amendment
5) Other Accomplishments. Visitors of this site will enjoy the personal details and information it provides. However, the site is slow to load and can be tiresome to read.

Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party

The Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party, a Library of Congress site is one for the more visually inspired. This site provides nearly 500 digital pictures documenting the women who fought for suffrage as members of the National Woman’s party. The site shows only a small portion of the records available at the Library of Congress Manuscript Division dedicated to the National Woman’s Party. Visitors to this site will enjoy the large number of images available. They also have access to a timeline of the National Woman’s Party from 1912-1997, which provides images as well as hyperlinks to important figures in the party. A number of essays are also available as short excerpts that can be downloaded in full as PDF’s. Overall, this site has a wonderful balance of information and images that will keep any user’s attention.

The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum

The Sewall-Belmont House & Museum is a museum located on Capitol Hill that documents the fight for women’s equality. This national landmark was the former residence of Alice Paul, a leader in the women’s rights movement and author of the Equal Rights Amendment. The home is also the headquarters of the National Woman’s Party. Visitors to this site will be impressed with its sophistication. The site provides information on expected museum information such as hours, directions, tours, and upcoming programs. However, a plethora of useful information is available on the site. There are links that provide detailed information to the museums collection. This includes the National Woman’s Party Digital Collection, which is updated continuously. There are also pages dedicated to the Hilles Feminist Library, which according to the site is “the first library in the country entirely dedicated to the study of the history of women in the United States and abroad” located on the museum property. Other highlights of this site include education information for the public, teachers, and students. This is an eye-catching, interactive, informative site!

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