ABSTRACT
Immediately on the heels of the suffrage parade, Alice Paul began to put in place plans that she and Lucy Burns had talked about since they met in England. They would continue to build on the gains made as a consequence of the parade. The Congressional Committee had never been set up within the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) framework as a standing committee. As a first order of business, Paul had to persuade NAWSA that a new—and separate—congressional committee should be organized as a standing committee. Paul had previously decided to publish a newspaper, The Suffragist. From the start, The Suffragist was intended to be a news publication and not a propaganda vehicle. Back in the United States, Rheta Childe Dorr was approached by Paul and accepted her invitation to become editor of The Suffragist. Published weekly, it kept readers informed about the status of the federal amendment and suffrage activity throughout the country.
