National Woman's Party

National Woman's Party

Successor	Alice Paul Institute
Formation	June 5, 1916; 108 years ago (1916-06-05)
Dissolved	January 1, 2021
Purpose	"To secure an amendment to the United States Constitution enfranchising women" and to pass the ERA
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Key people	Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Mabel Vernon, Anne Henrietta Martin
Website	https://www.alicepaul.org/
Formerly called	Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage

The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment. The most prominent leader of the National Woman's Party was Alice Paul, and its most notable event was the 1917–1919 Silent Sentinels vigil outside the gates of the White House.

On January 1, 2021, NWP ceased operations as an independent non-profit organization and assigned its trademark rights and other uses of the party's name to the educational non-profit, Alice Paul Institute.^[1] The Alice Paul Institute has invited three members of NWP Board of Directors to join their board and in the near future will create a new committee to "advise on a potential expansion of programs to the Washington, DC area and nationally". The papers and artifacts of the NWP, were donated to the Library of Congress and the National Park Service to make them available to the public.