
President Barack Obama speaks at the newly-designated Belmont-Paul Womens Equality National Monument in Washington, DC, April 12, 2016. The new Belmont-Paul Womens Equality National Monument will protect the iconic house that has served as the headquarters for the National Womans Party since 1929. From this house, known in recent years as the Sewall-Belmont House, members of the Party led the movement for womens equality, authoring more than 600 pieces of federal, state and local legislation in support of equal rights. The new monument is named for former Party president, activist and suffragist Alva Belmont, who was a major benefactor of the National Woman's Party, and Alice Paul, who founded the Party and was the chief strategist and leader in the Partys ongoing fight for womens political, social, and economic equality. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)