<P> Women associated with the party staged a very innovative suffrage parade on March 3, 1913, the day before Wilson's inauguration . </P> <P> During the group's first meeting, Paul clarified that the party would not be a political party and therefore would not endorse a candidate for president during elections . While non-partisan, the NWP directed most of its attention to President Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats, criticizing them as responsible for the failure to pass a constitutional amendment . The National Woman's Party continued to focus on suffrage as their main cause . It refused to either support or attack American involvement in the World War, while the rival National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under Carrie Chapman Catt gave full support to the war effort . As a result, a diverse group of activists such as pacifists and Socialists were attracted to the NWP due to its opposition to an anti-suffrage president . </P> <P> While the British suffragettes stopped their protests in 1914 and supported the British war effort, Paul continued her struggle for women's equality and organized picketing of a war time president to maintain attention to the lack of enfranchisement for women . Known as "Silent Sentinels", their action lasted from January 10, 1917 until June 1919 . The picketers were tolerated at first, but when they continued to picket after the United States declared war in 1917, they were arrested by police for obstructing traffic . Many of the NWP's members upon arrest went on hunger strikes; some, including Paul, were force - fed by jail personnel as a consequence . Anne Henrietta Martin, the NWP's first vice chairman, was sentenced to the Occoquan Workhouse, though Wilson pardoned her in less than a week . Other suffragists arrested during the picket included Helena Hill and Iris Calderhead . The resulting publicity at a time when Wilson was trying to build a reputation for himself and the nation as an international leader in human rights was designed to force Wilson to publicly call for the Congress to pass the Suffrage Amendment . </P> <P> Wilson favored woman suffrage at the state level, but held off support for a nationwide constitutional amendment because his party was sharply divided, with the South opposing an amendment on the grounds of state's rights . The only Southern state to grant women the vote was Arkansas . The NWP in 1917--1919 repeatedly attacked Wilson and his party for not enacting an amendment . Wilson, however, kept in close touch with more moderate suffragists of the National American Woman Suffrage Association . He continued to hold off until he was sure the Democratic Party in the North was supportive; the 1917 referendum in New York State in favor of suffrage proved decisive for him . In January, 1918, Wilson went in person to the House and made a strong and widely published appeal to the House to pass the bill . The innovative non-violent tactics of the NWP were a contributing factor in getting Wilson to change his position on the suffrage bill . It passed but the Senate stalled until 1919 then finally sent the amendment to the states for ratification . Scholar Belinda A. Stillion Southard has written that "...the campaign of the NWP was crucial toward securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment ." </P>

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