National womens party. The National Party was hounded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. The Congressional Union for womens suffrage became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. At which time, once the received the amendment in 1920, they began, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. During the period where they were lottery lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters over on on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes. And they began picketing the white house, one of the first groups to do so, when the United States entered world war i in 1917. At that pit at that time, the p
Dc. Ashington it was the fifth and final headquarters of the National Womens party. It was founded by alice paul in 1913 as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. It became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of womens and seven lobbying they president and congress for a , atral suffrage amendment which time, whence they received the amendment, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. They were lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country, actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters on Lafayette Square where they could walk out the door and be at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes. They began picketing the white house, one of the first groups to do so, when the United States entered world war i in 1917. At that time, it was quite peaceful but they turned ugly when crowds watching the women picket the white house believes there be
Party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. When they received the amendment in 1920, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. When they were lawyering for suffrage, they were working all over the country actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters on Lafayette Square where they could all caps edgar and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes. They began picketing the white house, one of the first groups to do so, when the United States entered world war i in 1917. At that time, it was quite peaceful but they turned ugly when crowds watching the women picket the white house believes there behavior to be unpatriotic, so crowds would throw things at the women, converge on them and tear the banners from their hands. In june of 1917, the women began being arrested on charg