| Profession | Activist |
| Birthplace | Mt. Laurel Township, NJ |
| Innovation | Activist who won women the right to vote |
| NJ Connection | Born in Mt. Laurel, lived most of her life in New Jersey, died in Moorestown |
Alice Paul followed in the footsteps of many 19th century suffragists but she was the one who led the successful crusade to secure the vote for women in the early 20th Century.
All it required of her was seven arrests, three jail terms, a threat to be sent to an insane asylum, multiple hunger strikes, and the enmity of much of the country.
Alice Paul graduated at the top of her class at Moorestown Friends School, graduated Swarthmore College with a degree in biology then followed with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1912.
She dedicated her life’s work to earning women the right to vote and helped organize the National Women’s Party to lead this fight.
Her crusade was met with deaf ears in Washington D.C. both in Congress and from incoming President Woodrow Wilson.
In response, Alice Paul organized one of the largest protest parades ever seen in the nation’s capital on Wilson’s inauguration day.
For the next eighteen months, she and her colleagues picketed in front of the White House - the first known instance of picketing there.
She was arrested for her efforts and news coverage of the rough treatment she endured in prison began to shift the national conscience.
