Alice Paul and Women’s Suffrage | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

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Alice Paul and Women’s Suffrage | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn about suffragist leader Alice Paul and her undaunted fight for the right of women to vote, in this video adapted from The Great War | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Not wanting to be cast as unpatriotic, many women’s suffrage groups suspended their protests after the United States entered World War I in 1917. Paul and a small group of supporters continued their efforts. Paul accused President Woodrow Wilson of “obstructing the cause of democracy at home, while Americans were fighting for it abroad.”

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