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Deeds Not Words: Suffragist Alice Paul

Patricia Nugent discusses how Alice Paul and the suffragists finally got womens suffrage passed after a 75-year battle, with everything stacked against them. What can we learn from them?

When and where

Date and time

Thursday, Oct 30, 2025
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM

Address

Albany Public Library, Washington Avenue Branch, 161 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12210

Cost

FREE ADMISSION

About this event

The League of Women Voters of Albany County hosts speaker Patricia Nugent as she explores what we can learn from the suffragists' resilience and determination to achieve justice and inclusion. Militant suffragists, under Alice Paul’s leadership, finally took women’s suffrage over the finish line in 1920 after a 75-year battle. Everything was stacked against them – but their determination was underestimated. How might their strategies inform the challenges we now face during yet another oppressive time in our nation’s history?

Patricia Nugent, a past president of the LWV of Saratoga County, has been a school administrator and adjunct communication professor, and now writes to give voice to those who might otherwise be silenced. She has been a student of the women’s suffrage movement for many decades, feeling a deep personal connection to those who opened up opportunities for women, and writes and presents about the task left unfinished: Ensuring equality of rights under the law for women.


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