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In the 2020s, the Suffragette flag began to be increasingly used by British feminists protesting against transgender rights; Ria Patel, the spokesperson on diversity and equality for the Green Party of England and Wales, argued that this use "claims a lineage that goes back to Mary Wollstonecraft, who authored Vindication of the Rights of Women ...
Suffragette flag of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) of the United Kingdom composed of the colors purple, white, and green. Introduced in 1908 , the colors represent loyalty and dignity (purple), purity (white), and hope (green).
Women's Sunday was a suffragette march and rally held in London on 21 June 1908. Organised by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to persuade the Liberal government to support votes for women, it is thought to have been the largest demonstration to be held until then in the country.
The WSPU stopped publishing The Suffragette, and in April 1915 it launched a new journal, Britannia. While the majority of WSPU members supported the war, a small number formed the Suffragettes of the Women's Social Political Union (SWSPU) and the Independent Women's Social and Political Union (IWSPU), led by Charlotte Marsh , and including ...
Clara Neal (1870–1936) – English teacher, suffragette and cofounder of the Swansea branch of the Women's Freedom League in 1909 [20] Mary Neal (1860–1944) – social worker and collector of English folk dances; Elizabeth Neesom (c. 1797/98 – 30 November 1866) – prominent English Radical and Chartist
English The Suffragette was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, as "the Official Organ of the Women’s Social and Political Union " (WSPU). It replaced the previous journal of the organization, Vote for Women , in 1912, and it's name changed to Britannia after the outbreak of World War I .
Votes For Women badge Dare to be Free, Women's Freedom League flag c. 1908. The Women's Freedom League [1] was an organisation in the United Kingdom from 1907 to 1961 which campaigned for women's suffrage, pacifism and sexual equality.
English: The gold-white-purple horizontal tricolor became the flag of the American suffrage movement. In 1913, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns had founded the "Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage", but in 1917 it was renamed The National Woman's Party (NWP).