American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and the main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the US
Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote
Along with Lucy Burns and others, Paul strategized the events, such as the Woman Suffrage Procession and the Silent Sentinels, which led the successful campaign that resulted in its passage in 1920
After 1920, Paul spent a half century as leader of the National Woman's Party, which fought for her Equal Rights Amendment to secure constitutional equality for women
She won a large degree of success with the inclusion of women as a group protected against discrimination by the Civil Rights Act of 1964
She insisted that her National Woman's Party focus on the legal status of all women and resisted calls to address issues like birth control
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