Flip to Alice Paul toasting Tennessee's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Washington, D.C., August 17, 1920.
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Credit: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Records of the National Woman's Party
Pennsylvania suffragists came from a broad range of backgrounds. A founder of the National Women's Party, for which she chaired important committees, Mrs. Lawrence (Dora) Lewis was part of a prominent Philadelphia family. Jailed for participating in a pro-suffrage meeting in Washington D.C.'s Lafayette Square, she participated in a five-day hunger strike that attracted nation attention.