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The first suffragette to be force fed was Evaline Hilda Burkitt. The death of one suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison, when she ran in front of George V's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, made headlines around the world. The WSPU campaign had varying levels of support from within the suffragette movement; breakaway groups formed, and within the ...
This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.
This is a list of Washington, D.C., suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Suffragists also held art exhibitions to raise money. Harriot Stanton Blatch convinced Louisine Havemeyer to loan part of her arts collection for shows at New York City's Knoedler Gallery in April 1912. [25] In 1915, an art show was held at the Macbeth Gallery to raise money for the women's suffrage campaign in New York state. [26]
Black suffragists affiliated with a variety of local and national organizations; "there is more to the story of Black women's suffrage activism than their exclusion from the ranks of white suffragists" [4] National American Woman Suffrage Association suffragists, the mainstream group most commonly identified with the idea of suffrage work
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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
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 ...