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National Woman’s Party

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Formerly (1913–16):
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
Date:
1913
Areas Of Involvement:
women’s suffrage

National Woman’s Party (NWP), American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffrage work be concentrated on the federal, rather than state and local, level led to an acrimonious split in 1914. Both a new name and new tactics were adopted in 1916. The ...(100 of 326 words)

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