See the breathtaking movie Iron Jawed Angels - 
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul

Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 ΓÇô July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist and activist. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920