February 1921 marked a historic crossroads for the National Woman’s Party and feminism in general. For the past eight years, the party, led by its president Alice Paul of Burlington County, had been the face of the drive to ratify the 19th Amendment, giving American women the vote. With that victory achieved, the party met in Washington, D.C. to decide its future course, and what causes to champion.

The Washington Evening Star of Feb.18 reported, “A fight developed at the National Woman’s Party convention, at the…