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"The March of the Women" is a song composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton. It became the official anthem of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and more widely the anthem of the women's suffrage movement throughout the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
The United States’ Women's Suffrage movement involved thousands of women, each with differing backgrounds. One way that the movement was made accessible to many was through music. [1] Lyrics to suffragist songs were often original sociopolitical commentary. [1]
In the United States, the 1884 song "The Equal-Rights Banner" was sung to the tune of the US national anthem by American activists for women's voting rights. [1] "The March of the Women" and "The Women's Marseillaise" were sung by British suffragettes as anthems of the women's suffrage movement in the 1900s–1910s.
The song was sung in order to lift the spirits of prisoners in Holloway Prison in 1908. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Between 1908 and 1911, the Mascottes Ladies Band often performed "The Women's Marsellaise." [ 5 ] In 1913, "The Women's Marsellaise" was sung by a protester in Britain during the trial of two suffragettes . [ 6 ]
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"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [1] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim. [2]
Song Suffragettes is a weekly writer's round held in Nashville, Tennessee featuring rotating female country artists. [1] Song Suffragettes is a collective of female singer-songwriters who stand together in the face of systemic gender-disparity in the music industry. [2] In 2018, Song Suffragettes was featured in Elle magazine. [3]
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper. [72] Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. [73] Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist. [74]