David Levinsky | February 10, 2020 | Burlington County Times |
Alice Paul, who grew up in a home on Hooton Road in Mount Laurel and graduated from Moorestown Friends School, would be honored in both the Statehouse complex in Trenton and the U.S. Capitol in Washington under a pair of bills approved by the full Senate on Monday.
TRENTON — This year marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment extending to all American women the right to vote, and New Jersey lawmakers are moving to make sure one of the leading activists in the fight receives her due.
Alice Paul, who grew up in a home on Hooton Road in Mount Laurel and graduated from Moorestown Friends School, would be honored in both the Statehouse complex in Trenton and the U.S. Capitol in Washington under a pair of bills approved by the full Senate on Monday.
Paul is credited with helping to spearhead the nationwide effort to pass the 19th Amendment, which grants women the right to vote. She is also the author of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution in 1923 and fought for its passage until her death in 1977. The amendment would prohibit any type of discrimination based on gender.
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