Alice Paul

Born on January 11, 1885 to Quaker parents, Alice was the oldest of four children. Growing up her parents raised her to believe in gender equality, and she later noted that it was on her family farm where she was first introduced to the suffrage movement by her mother, Tacie. However, it was not until she went to England that she truly became a suffragette.
In 1907, Paul left for Birmingham, England, to study social work at the Woodbrooke settlement. It was there that she met Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of England's most radical suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst. The mother-daughter duo were the leaders of a militant faction of suffragettes who did not believe that traditional prayers, petitions, or patience would work. Instead, they engaged in visible measures such as heckling, window smashing, and rock throwing to gain public attention for the movement. They also devised a strategy of holding the party in power responsible, for women's secondary status.
During Paul's involvement in the movement, she claims to have broken 48 windows. She was arrested on multiple occasions and like others in the movement, she protested her with hunger strikes, as a result the police would brutally force feed them. She realized the success of Pankhurst's methods towards suffrage and their ability to rouse the country towards the cause.
Upon her return to America in 1910, Paul became a member of the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA). She was appointed the head of the Congressional Committee, which was in charge of the fight for suffrage at the federal lever. This was a secondary goal for the NAWSA, as they fought for suffrage at the state level. She and two other friends, Lucy Burns and Crystal Eastman, organized a parade of women up Pennsylvania Avenue on the day of President Wilson's inauguration. The march took a turn for the worst when onlooking men began to attack the suffragettes, initially with insults, but then things turned to physical violence. However, Alice achieved what she had wanted, publicity. The following day the march made headlines across the country and suffrage became a hot topic.
Paul and her followers severed ties with the NAWSA in 1916, over a difference of how to achieve universal suffrage. Where the NAWSA supported President Wilson, Paul wanted to hold him and the Democratic Party responsible (Pankhurst's tactic). Paul formed the National Woman's Party (NWP) and began organizing protests. Their most popular form of protest being "Silent Sentinels", standing outside the White House holding banners with messages for President Wilson. While not considered a threat initially, the dawn of WWI led to many seeing the protesters as unpatriotic. The women were attacked by angry mobs and were eventually arrested for "obstructing traffic". The women were placed in unsanitary conditions and were force fed. Once the public found out, outrage led to them being released in 1917.
As a response to the public outcry that came as a result of the prison abuse of the suffragists, President Wilson changed his position and announced his support for the suffrage movement. After the ratification of the 19th amendment, Paul continued to fight for complete equality. In 1923, Paul announced that she would continue working for a new constitutional amendment aiming for complete gender equality. Originally known as the "Lucretia Mott Amendment", soon became the "Equal Rights Amendment". It was introduced in every session of congress from 1923 until it was passed in 1972. Alice Paul died on July 9, 1977 at the age of 92.

Source
1. Carol, Rebecca, Kristina Meyers, and Janet Lindman, Dr. "Who Was Alice Paul." Alicepaul.org. Alice Paul Institute, 2015. Web. 21 Nov. 2016.