Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The monument is named after suffragists and National Woman's Party leaders Alva Belmont and Alice Paul.
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument (Sept. 2021)
Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
Alva Belmont Plaque
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment. The most prominent leader of the National Woman's Party was Alice Paul, and its most notable event was the 1917–1919 Silent Sentinels vigil outside the gates of the White House.
Portrait of Alice Paul, 1915
Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman Congressional Union, 1913
Mabel Vernon
Judge Mary Bartelme, NWP vice chair, 1916-1917