Alice Paul and Civil Disobedience for Women’s Suffrage | Carrie Chapman Catt

A young suffragist named Alice Paul was serving as the Chair of the Congressional Committee for NAWSA. But, out of frustration with its policies, Paul left to form the more militant Congressional Union for Women’s Suffrage in 1914. Later, the group was renamed the National Woman’s Party, or NWP.

Carrie Chapman Catt devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights nationwide and around the world, and is recognized as one of the key leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Her political strategies and organizational skills contributed to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920. 

This segment is from Iowa PBS’s documentary Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women which tells the compelling story of the Iowa suffragist and her role in the women’s suffrage movement.