alice paul and a woman named crystal eastman presented the document to the party in 1923. and from that time, they worked for legal, social, and economic equality for women throughout the united states and later, throughout the world. they worked for the equal rights amendment from the south from 1923 until 1997, when they became a 501(c)(3). and today, we work to preserve our outstanding collection of women suffrage and equal rights artifacts and educate the public about this movement and the stories about this community of women who worked for total equality for women. the belmont-paul house is named after alice paul, our original founder, and albert elmont. belmont was the benefactor and president of the party for many years, and it's because of her that we have such a large collection of books, scrapbooks, artifacts, and many other objects that allow us to tell this story. now, we are upstairs, and we are going to talk about our collection of political cartoons by the national women's party official cartoonist, nina allender. the national women's party was the only par

it was founded by alice paul in 1913 as the congressional union for women's suffrage. it became the national women's party in 1916. this group of women's and seven lobbying they president and congress for a , atral suffrage amendment which time, whence they received the amendment, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. they were lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country, actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president's doorstep. they had headquarters on lafayette square where they could walk out the door and be at the president's doorstep in a matter of minutes. they began picketing the white house, one of the first groups to do so, when the united states entered world war i in 1917. at that time, it was quite peaceful but they turned ugly when crowds watching the women picket the white house believes there behavior to be unpatriotic, so crowds would throw things at the women, converge on them and tear the banners from their hands. begane of 1917, the women being arrested

the party was founded by a woman called them -- named alice paul in 1913 as the congressional union for women's suffrage

book, had done her primary source research, and there were notes from meetings where, you know, alice paul and susan b. anthony and elizabeth katie stanton and she was told, you know, all you want to do is make babies. she had, like, five or six children. you can't be the face of the movement because you're getting pregnant every year. [laughter] it was really -- >> off the chain as we would say today. but the i'm so glad that you pointed that out, rebecca, because it's always been that way. >> >> when i was doing my research on the history of unmarried women in the united states, first of all, it's incredible. you read now about people writing off beyonce voters and there's all sorts of political rhetoric about women voters, and that all comes from the right and then, you know, you see all kinds of arguments played out in the press about the benefits of early marriage versus the benefits of late marriage, and you think that these are contemporary or phenomenon. but, in fact, you see the exact same arguments laid out just as crudely many times. you know, certainly happening at the end of t

a book about young american radicals during world war i, one of my protagnies eggs alice paul, the absolutelyfearless incredibly inspiring suffragist leader who gets the sues ban b. -- susan b. anthony amendment across the finish line. >> one more question. >> everything i've read about lin or seen on his twitter, just seems like his pace is so frantic and almost like nonstop, like, in "hamilton" and says in the book someone asked him are you ever going to slow down yourself, write like you're return ought of time. he said, well, i. a do you share that sort of same work ethic as him o. wars it kind of hard to keep up with his pace when you were work with someone who never stops.

a book about young american radicals during world war i, one of my protagnies eggs alice paul, the absolutely fearless incredibly inspiring suffragist leader who gets the sues ban b. -- susan b. anthony amendment across the finish line. >> one more question. >> everything i've read about lin or seen on his twitter, just seems like his pace is so frantic and almost like nonstop, like, in "hamilton" and says in the book someone asked him are you ever going to slow down yourself, write like you're return ought of time. he said, well, i. a do you share that sort of same work ethic as him o. wars it kind of hard to keep up with his pace when you were work with someone who never stops. >> we do kind of share the same work ethic. we both sort of -- we had to hit a deadline they set for us wimple had tone could churning out words. but lin is a very rare specimen. i have got top work with a lot of very talented people, and there's something unique about that guy. about how closely he listens, thing you don't think he is picking up, the speed his brain is moving all the time, even when you think it's n