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Alice Paul was beaten, arrested, force-fed in prison, and nearly killed — and she considered all of it a tactical success. While Susan B. Anthony's generation had petitioned politely for decades, Paul brought British suffragette militancy to America, organized the largest protest march in U.S. history, picketed Woodrow Wilson's White House during wartime, and engineered the political pressure that finally passed the Nineteenth Amendment.

This episode traces Paul from her Quaker upbringing through her radicalization in London with the Pankhursts, the 1913 Washington march, the Night of Terror at Occoquan prison, and the constitutional victory she spent the rest of her life trying to extend with the Equal Rights Amendment.

• Paul's radicalization alongside Emmeline Pankhurst's suffragettes in London
• The 1913 Washington parade and the strategic split from the mainstream suffrage movement
• The White House pickets, the arrests, and the Night of Terror at Occoquan workhouse
• The Nineteenth Amendment victory and Paul's lifelong campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment