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I believe women and men should be the same in political 

ways.   If men can vote, women should be able to vote. If men 

can be on any political board, then women should be able to be 

on the board.   If men can start businesses then so can women. 

Women shouldn't be treated differently because of their gender.   My 

name is Alice Paul and this is the story of my fight for what I believe in.

You might know me already. I was the leader of the Congressional Union 

for a while. That is where most of it started.   The Women’s Rights 

Convention Seneca Falls was the first place were women met up to start 

forming a team.   Lucy Stone founded one of the groups, AWSA , which 

was the American Women’s Suffrage Association.   Susan B. Anthony 

founded NWSA, which was National Woman Suffrage Association. When 

elections came around Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth tried to 

vote. They called it the great vote-in. Truth was turned away and Anthony 

was thrown in jail. They both fought for women’s suffrage, they both 

believe exactly what I believed.   So in 1890 they joined together to make 

NAWSA. That’s where I come in.

Carrie Chapman Catt was the president of NAWSA. That was after 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was the first president of NAWSA. 

Anna Howard Shaw was after her. She wasn't a very good 

president. She made me in charge of the Congressional Union. My 

partner Lucy Burns and I made up the campaign. We were in 

charge of getting people to support us.   We organized parades and 

fundraisers. That lasted for a while. I don’t think Carrie Catt liked 

me to well. She didn't think we were using the right things for 

campaigning.

Catt wanted to go state to state. I had some different ideas. I 

put together a group of women who were from all different 

backgrounds and views and we had a parade.   We had the 

factory workers, we had the mothers, we even had some 

wives. But of course we had to persuade them to join first. We 

handed out flyer's and talked to everyone on the streets. The 

factory workers were the hardest to get into our plan, but once 

we got one we got them all. 

The parade was not as successful as Catt wanted. A lot of people got hurt 

by men on the street. But we kept going.   I organized all of our events 

and followed through with them.   Although we were becoming more and 

more successful, Catt really didn't like what I was doing. I was expelled 

from NAWSA because Catt believed that I was stealing from NAWSA. Let 

me explain it. The Congressional Union has the own finances, so anything 

that we raise goes to the Congressional Union account. Catt didn't like 

that so she said I was stealing from NAWSA and they expelled me.

Vote women

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