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  2. Battle of Downing Street - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Downing Street was a march of suffragettes to Downing Street, London, on 22 November 1910.Organized by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union, the march took place four days after Black Friday, a suffragette protest outside the House of Commons that saw the women violently attacked by police.

  3. Vaccine hesitancy - Wikipedia

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    It has existed since the invention of vaccination and pre-dates the coining of the terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" by nearly eighty years. [19] "Anti-vaccinationism" refers to total opposition to vaccination. Anti-vaccinationists have been known as "anti-vaxxers" or "anti-vax". [20]

  4. Anti-vaccine activism - Wikipedia

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    An anti-vaccination activist holds a sign at a Tea Party Express rally in Minnesota in 2010. Rally of the Anti-Vaccination League of Canada in 1919. Anti-vaccine activism, which collectively constitutes the "anti-vax" movement, [1] is a set of organized activities proclaiming opposition to vaccination, and these collaborating networks have often fought to increase vaccine hesitancy by ...

  5. The great Georgetown vaccine fight: When a mob took to the ...

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    Smallpox vaccine developed, for those who would take it Michael Morgan At the beginning of the 20th century, due to the work of Dr. Edward Jenner and others, a reliable vaccine for smallpox was ...

  6. Mud March (suffragists) - Wikipedia

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    Poster advertising the march and meeting, 9 February 1907. The United Procession of Women, or Mud March as it became known, was a peaceful demonstration in London on 9 February 1907 organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), in which more than three thousand women marched from Hyde Park Corner to the Strand in support of women's suffrage.

  7. COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy - Wikipedia

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    Anti-vaccine activists Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Del Bigtree have suggested without evidence that the death of Baseball Hall of Fame member Hank Aaron was caused by receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Aaron's death was reported as being due to natural causes, and medical officials did not believe the COVID-19 vaccine had any adverse effect on his ...

  8. Women's Sunday - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - Wikipedia

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    The National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), also known as the suffragists (not to be confused with the suffragettes) was an organisation founded in 1897 of women's suffrage societies around the United Kingdom. [1] [2] In 1919 it was renamed the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. [citation needed]