Famous Quakers
Alice Stokes Paul (1985-1977)
Alice Paul was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement and one of the foremost strategists of the campaign for the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. She suffered police brutality and deplorable prison conditions with great courage. For 50 years she was the leader of the National Women’s Party, which fought for the Equal Rights Amendment.
James Albert Corbet (1933-2001)
“Jim” was the instigator of the national Sanctuary movement in the 1980s. An Arizona rancher, he smuggled refugees from Central America across the Mexican border and connected them with houses of worship across the U.S. willing to break the law by providing them acntuary. He wrote about his experiences in Goatwalking (1991) and ASnctuary for All Like (2005). Jim was a sescendant of the Blackfoot indigenous tribe. He was featured in a documentary, The New Underground Railroad, produced by Carl and Kathy Hersh, members of the DeLand Quaker Meeting.
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