Young Alice Paul, campaigning for women's right to vote.
An early edition of "The Suffragist" newspaper
From One of America's Most Revolutionary Women by Amanda B.
May 10th, 1962 Dear Social (In)Justice, Recently I was introduced to your magazine and found myself greatly delighted by its insightful content. What struck me the most was the coverage on the African-American struggle for freedom . The division between militant and compliant methods of action are very similar to the discord within the women's movement. Reading the articles on Malcolm X and Du Bois, I found myself very reassured that others had similarly embraced the aggressive approach in the face of injustice. After reading your publication, I would very much like to meet Mr Malcolm X one day and exchange insight on the methods of change. Perhaps I'd like to meet Mr. Du Boise as well in the future as his early efforts for forceful change are inspiring to me as well. Thank you for covering such deep insight into this lesser-known civil rights community of aggressiveness. It was relieving for me to read that your coverage was not antagonistic as the majority of others are, because as somebody who identifies with this methodology, I am often disappointed when the value of militant action is ignored. As a writer myself,I was happy to see that this publication has greatly covered the Women's Suffrage movement that my newspaper, The Suffragist, emphasis. My paper, founded in 1913 with Lucy Burns after our split from the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA), has tried to garner awarenes of women's political inequality in our country. Upon reading Social (In)Justice, I have been exploring the idea that our two publications could perhaps partner up and exchange ideas for future stories of some kind, to attract attention to both of our individual causes. This could do us both a mutual good since your publication, while still small, could benefit from the partnership, and mine could prosper by the sheer extra readers from the West Coast. Please consider this offer, and if your editors so agree on an arrangement, I am sure the staff at The Suffragist would be honored to work with your wonderful magazine. Regards, Alice Paul