Amy Carlson wanted to be special. She tried astrology, and she tried men — angry, violent, useless men. One held a knife to her throat, which forced her to get a restraining order.

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that party had ceased to exist.

So at the Alice Paul Center, in her childhood home, we teach people about the suffrage movement, women’s history and get people more civically engaged. We offer a bunch of different free and ...

She (Ramsey) takes direct quotes from Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul, and puts music to these words of them.” Steenblik says it’s unusual to sing the prose of ...

She also became an active member of the suffrage movement, advocating for Black women’s right to vote and ultimately splitting off from the likes of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton over ...

Teachers scheduled to bring 76 students to the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice received a barrage of "denigrating" messages once word about the trip got on social media.

Alice Paul (1885-1997) Behind the fight for the 19th Amendment, Paul was a suffragist from New Jersey who spent her life advocating for women's issues. She co-founded the National Women's Party.

This monument contains the most complete collection of women’s suffrage and equal rights movement documents and artifacts in the United States. It bears the names of activists Alice Paul, who founded ...

If you’ve ever heard the term “Boston marriage,” you might assume it’s the name for a wedding that took place in the city of Boston. In fact, it doesn’t refer to nuptials at all.

I now understand why women’s rights were covered by the Sonoma Index-Tribune so early in the movement. Rowena’s son (my great grandfather,) Harry, was editor of the I-T from 1884 to 1915.

We can see evidence of this from the earliest days of the feminist movement— like when Alice Paul, a suffragist leader, sent Black women to the back of marches.