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Há 5 dias · The Women's Social and Political Union ( WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. [1] Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel ...
Há 3 dias · Alice Paul. Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
Há 3 dias · Christina Broom, one of Britain’s first female press photographers, recorded the burgeoning suffragette movement in the early 1900s. John Thomson captured Victorian street characters, such as ...
Há 5 dias · Emily Davison, British activist who became a martyr to the cause of women’s suffrage when she entered the racetrack during the 1913 Epsom Derby and moved in front of King George V’s horse, which struck her at full force. She died four days later from her injuries. Learn more about Davison’s life.
Há 2 dias · Women's suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand. In early colonial New Zealand, as in European societies, women were excluded from any involvement in politics. Public opinion began to change in the latter half of the nineteenth century and after years of effort by women's suffrage ...
Há 4 dias · To win the right to vote, women had to develop a sophisticated political strategy, and New York served as their primary training ground. Embedded in the story of New York suffragists are many clues for how to discover information about suffrage activities elsewhere.
Há 4 dias · Was a "suffragette" different than a "suffragist"? Here's how the fiery British feminist Emmeline Parkhurst explained the distinction: The suffragist -- well, she just wants the ballot and the suffragette . . . is going to get it.
