League of Women Voters-Princeton Area – A “Portrayal” of Alice Paul – in Celebration
of the League’s 80th Anniversary, Monday, October 15th,
6:30-8:30 pm, Channing Hall, Unitarian Universalist Church.
This event will feature Taylor Williams, a member of the American Historical Theatre. Williams,
performing as Alice Paul, who will tell the inspiring story of how Paul
courageously stood up as a key leader in the National American Woman Suffrage
Association and fought for the women’s right to vote – ending with ratification
of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920. Paul also wrote and worked for the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA), which was first introduced in Congress in 1923 and came
close to being ratified in 1980. Williams, herself
both a trained actress and a practicing constitutional lawyer, has been
performing as Alice Paul since the 1980s when she co-created a program about
Alice Paul for the Smithsonian Institution. The Unitarian Universalist
Church is located at 50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, NJ 08540. Refreshments. Free. Plenty of parking. For
further information - lvwprinceton@gmail.com
or www.lwvprinceton.org.
