Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights

the long version

Here is the story of extraordinary leader Alice Paul, from the woman suffrage movement the long struggle for votes for women to the ?second wave, when women demanded full equality with men. Paul made a significant impact on both. She reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional.