Alice Paul

Alice was an American suffragist leader, she fought for women's rights with her close friend Lucy Burns and others. She led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that as a result led to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. She received her undergraduate from Swathmore College, and earned her M.A and PhD from the university of Pennsylvania. In 1929, she became the primary resident for 40 years of a house bought by Alva Belmont, located on Capital Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Alice Paul died at the age of 92 on July 9,1977 at the Quaker Greenleaf Extension Home in Moorestown Township, New Jersey, near her family home of Paulsdale. She is an appropriate name for our class simply because she was a great person. It is an honor to have a woman to have fought for women as a class name.