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Maps and directions<\/a><\/p>\n Download a flyer<\/a><\/p>\n On September 19th, Peace and Conflict Studies and co-sponsors will <\/a>\u00a0celebrate the International Day of Peace<\/a>, 125 years of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College<\/a>,\u00a0and the start of the College’s Sesquicentennial<\/a> with a talk by Mary Walton, author of\u00a0A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The focus of Walton’s talk will be Alice Paul<\/a>\u00a0(Class of 1905) and her friend and fellow Swarthmore alum, Mabel Vernon<\/a>\u00a0(Class of 1906).<\/p>\n A New Jersey Quaker, Alice Paul was the leader of the militant wing of the suffrage movement from 1913 to 1920. Hers was a David-and-Goliath struggle to convince a reluctant congress and a stubborn president to give women the vote. Paul and her followers were the first people to picket the White House. They were arrested, thrown in jail, brutalized and force fed when they went on hunger strikes. A pioneer in non-violent resistance, she was to suffrage what Gandhi was to Indian independence, what Martin Luther King Jr. was to civil rights.<\/p>\n In 1913, Mabel Vernon gladly gave up teaching to join her college friend, Alice Paul, in working full time for the Congressional Union. From that day on, she devoted her life to suffrage and other causes. Mabel Vernon was among the most militant suffragists. In 1916, she stood up in a full auditorium and heckled President Wilson as he spoke about democracy. Vernon picketed the White House and was among the first suffragists to go to jail.<\/p>\n Mary Walton is the author of four previous works of nonfiction. She was a reporter for the\u00a0Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>\u00a0for many years where she wrote more than a hundred magazine stories as a staff writer for the\u00a0Sunday Inquirer Magazine<\/em>. She has also written for the\u00a0New York Times, Washingtonian,\u00a0<\/em>theWashington Monthly,\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0American Journalism Review.\u00a0<\/em>After graduation from Harvard University, and a turn at social work and community organizing, Walton began her journalism career in 1969 as a reporter for the Charleston (WV) Gazette.<\/p>\n\n International Day of Peace 2013<\/p>\n Sponsors: Peace and Conflict Studies, the President’s Office, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Friends Historical Library, History Department, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Women’s Resource Center, Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, English Literature Department, and Political Science Department.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Bibliographic links for photographs.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark your calendars for the College’s first\u00a0sesquicentennial celebration event, a talk by author Mary Walton: A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul ’05, Mabel Vernon ’06, and the Battle for the Ballot Mary Walton September 19, 2013; 4:15 p.m. Scheuer Room,\u00a0Kohlberg Hall,\u00a0Swarthmore College Maps and directions Download a flyer On September 19th, Peace and Conflict Studies and … Continue reading Mark your calendars: Alice Paul ’05, Mabel Vernon ’06, and the Battle for the Ballot<\/span> ![\"Mary](\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/Mary_Walton.jpg\")
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