Joan Anderson Meacham remembers being “so irritated and angry.” In 1979, the educated, 44 year old serving on the Advisory Committee on the Status of Women in Cape May, New Jersey, got an invitation from the Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, prompting her to ask, “Who is Alice Paul?” Meacham had never heard of the suffragist who carried on the fight for women’s right to vote after Susan B. Anthony’s death, a woman jailed and force fed during her hunger strikes. “I was so irrita
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