Suffragette Alice Paul was born in New Jersey in 1885. She went on to found the National Women's Party and dedicate her entire life to the cause that men and women should be equal in society. 2. Even as a child, she attended meetings of the American Suffrage Association. Paul had an exceptionally keen mind. She earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1905, and M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907 and 1912 and three (3) law degrees from American University - a bachelor, masters, and doctor of law in the 1920's. Paul traveled to England in 1907. It was there that she met the militant suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. (5) As they were arrested and imprisoned several times, but their actions resulted in newspaper stories
