2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Alice Paul sewing a suffrage banner

Alice Paul: Crusader for Equality

Feb 23 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm

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Alice Paul was one of the most influential women in 20th-century America, leading the final fight for women’s suffrage and championing equal rights for women through most of the 20th century. This presentation with Altana West, Program Coordinator for the Alice Paul Institute, features original photographs from her personal collection, explores Alice Paul’s life, her roots in the New Jersey Quaker community, her role in the fight for suffrage, and her work for the Equal Rights Amendment.

The "Women and the Right to Vote: Then and Now" series is funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the Friends of the East Brunswick Library.

Our community partners are the East Brunswick Human Relations Council, East Brunswick Woman's Club,Milltown Public Library, the Monroe Public Library, Piscataway Public Library, South River Public Library, and the Spotswood Public Library. Additional funding is provided by the East Brunswick Friends of the Library.
 

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Online Event/Program: 
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Audience: 
Adults, Teens