Remarkable American Women: Alice Paul and the 19th Amendment
Alice Stokes Paul was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights
activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for
the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex
discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated and, along with others,
strategized events, such as the 1913Woman Suffrage Procession and the
Silent Sentinels, which were part of the successful campaign that resulted in
the amendment's passage in 1920.
– Corrine Egan, B.A.
Corrine Egan has served as Executive Director for the NW PA Labor-Management Council and director of Special Events and Community Education at Mercyhurst University. She graduated from Mercyhurst with a business degree in 1980. She has served on the Board of Trustees for Metro Health Center, as a commissioner for the NW Regional Planning Commission, and is a past member of the Pennsylvania Commission for Women.
