And shortly thereafter, he said if Congress wanted to pass that legislation, he wouldn’t try to block it. OConnor House is preserved and cared for by the Sandra Day OConnor Institute, an Arizona 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to continue former. And finally, the President ordered their release. And they were force-fed and kept under terrible conditions. And they were promptly arrested and put in jail for picketing. And she had worked for years with Carrie Chapman Catt and the other suffragettes, who every year would petition Congress and talked to them and tried to get an amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote and send it to the states and Congress wouldn’t do it.Īnd Alice Paul said, “Well now look: we’re gonna go down and picket the White House,” which she did with a group of women. SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR: Right over here, the red brick house belonged to Alice Paul, who was one of the suffragettes who worked so hard to get women the right to vote.Īnd she formed the National Women’s Party. In the 1970s, the O'Connors’ hospitality became legendary. KATIE COURIC: … that’s really quite meaningful. In the late 1950s, Sandra Day O'Connor and her husband, John O'Connor, built an adobe home on Denton Lane in Paradise Valley, Arizona. KATIE COURIC: And you also have a very interesting view of uh - a red brick house, or building … And that woman played a very important role in that. SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR: Giving women the right to vote.