Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello, and welcome to part two of our coverage of Alice Paul.

How about this for a quick recap, for those of you who don't want to go back to part one, although we highly recommend it.

Up to you.

Alice Paul was born into a very wealthy Quaker family. She was educated

up through her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. And along the way, she worked

within the settlement movement and got very active with a women's suffrage organization in

England led by Emmeline Pankhurst. Through them, Alice learned the value of public relations,

organization, big visible protest, and how to withstand imprisonment and violence through force

feeding. She returned to the United States, joined the National Women's Suffrage Association,

who were a bit fearful of her radical

suffragist education, but they gave her a three-month assignment to pull together a suffrage parade

in Washington, D.C., and she and her co-suffragist, Lucy Burns, did anything that the U.S.

had ever seen with a spectacular, well-organized parade that unfortunately

became violent when anti-severage, mostly men, rushed the women.

When we left Alice's story in part one, the cavalry had finally arrived to shepherd the

procession the last few blocks of the way, as the march reached the treasury building,

there was an allegory tableau, Columbia in armor, so regal and inspirational, surrounded by the figures

of justice, hope, charity, and liberty. Now, this was not at all what had been intended. Hey, ho, rumboleau

on the streets of the nation's capital. I love that so much, and I don't know if it's actually

Dickens or if it's Terry Prash it. But perhaps this could be turned to some advantage,

all the outrage as the news percolated out nationwide.

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