Silver Loving Cup presented to Alice Paul
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Object Details
- associated date
- 1914-11-01
- referenced
- Paul, Alice
- Description
- On January 11, 1914 Elizabeth Kent of the Congressional Union for Woman’s Suffrage presented Alice Paul with a silver loving cup "in affectionate recognition of her wisdom, her devotion and her courage." It was Paul’s twenty-ninth birthday. At this meeting Alice Paul announced her daring new strategy: campaigning to defeat members of the political party in power (at that time the Democratic Party) until that party officially supported woman suffrage. This change from the more conservative state-by-state lobbying efforts fractured the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association and the Congressional Union for Woman’s Suffrage. Paul split off from the National American Woman Suffrage Association and eventually formed the National Woman’s Party.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- general subject association
- Women's Suffrage
- Women's History
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Woman Suffrage
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alice Paul Centennial Foundation Inc
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1987.0165.158
- accession number
- 1987.0165
- catalog number
- 1987.0165.158
- Object Name
- silver loving cup
- trophy
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 18 cm x 13 cm x 9 cm; 7 3/32 in x 5 1/8 in x 3 17/32 in
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_765914