Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Administrative History
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1913 | Founding of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage by Alice Paul |
| 1916 | National Woman's Party formed at the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage convention in Chicago, Ill. |
| 1917 | Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party merged as the National Woman's Party |
| 1917-1918 | Party members arrested and imprisoned for picketing the White House and the Capitol area |
| 1919-1920 | State legislatures lobbied to achieve needed ratification of the federal suffrage amendment |
| 1920 | National Woman's Party helped secure passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, recognizing the right of women to a vote |
| 1921 | National Woman's Party reorganized |
| 1921-1929 | Legal Research Department of the National Woman's Party drafted over 600 pieces of legislation in support of equal rights for women on the state and local levels |
| 1922 | Passage of the Cable Act ("Married Women's Citizenship Act"), repealing the 1907 Expatriation Act that had stripped women of their United States citizenship upon marriage to a foreign national |
| 1923 | Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), drafted by Alice Paul, introduced in Congress (re-introduced in every session of Congress for forty-nine consecutive years) |
| 1928 | Assisted in the establishment of the Inter-American Commission of Women |
| 1929 | National Woman's Party headquarters moved to the Alva Belmont House |
| 1931 | Congress passed revisions to the 1922 Cable Act further easing restrictions on women's citizenship and naturalization rights |
| 1933-1934 | Equal Nationality Treaty, drafted by Alice Paul, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 1937 | Fought successfully for repeal of Section 213 of the Legislative Appropriations Act of 1932 (Economy Act), which prohibited federal employees from working with the federal government when their spouses were also federal employees |
| 1938 | World Woman's Party founded by Alice Paul |
| 1964 | Campaigned successfully for the inclusion of "sex" in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, thus prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex |
| 1972 | ERA is approved by the United States Senate, sending it to the states; twenty states ratify The party headquarters is added to the National Register of Historic Places and the name changed to the Sewall-Belmont House to better reflect its history; designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974 |
| 1977 | Death of Alice Paul, Moorestown, N.J. Woman's Party Corporation established by the National Woman's Party as a tax-exempt charitable organization to oversee maintenance of the Sewall-Belmont House and educational activities |
| 1982 | Time limit expired for the states to ratify the ERA |
| 1997 | The National Woman's Party became a 501(c) nonprofit educational organization and ceased lobbying |
| 2016 | The National Woman's Party donated the Sewall-Belmont House to the National Park Service; by Presidential Proclamation 9423 it became the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument |
| 2020, Dec. | National Woman's Party ceased operations. The Alice Paul Institute in Mount Laurel, NJ, accepted the National Woman's Party's trademark and agreed to carry on its mission to advance gender equality. |