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A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is the title of the collection of satirical poems published on June 12, 1915 [1] by suffragist Alice Duer Miller. [2] Many of the poems in this collection were originally released individually in the New York Tribune between February 4, 1913 to November 4, 1917.
Despite that Ecuador granted women suffrage in 1929, which was earlier than most independent countries in Latin America (except for Uruguay, which granted women suffrage in 1917), differences between men's and women's suffrage in Ecuador were only removed in 1967 (before 1967 women's vote was optional, while that of men was compulsory; since ...
[2] [3] In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist α (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. [4] The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. [4]
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence credited Robins with explaining to him the difference between a suffragette and a suffragist. [11] Robins was involved in the campaign to allow women to enter the House of Lords. Her friend, Margaret Haig, was the daughter of Viscount Rhondda. He was a supporter of women's rights and in his ...
Susan B. Anthony tried to calm the younger suffragists, but they issued a formal denunciation of the book at NAWSA's January 1896 convention, [4] and worked to distance the suffrage movement from Stanton's broader scope which included attacks on traditional religion. Because of the widespread negative reaction, including that of suffragists who ...
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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 and Sylvia .
[14] [15] The women's suffrage campaign proved successful, and the right for women to vote passed in the state in November 1911. [16] [17] During the California campaign, the suffragettes carried banners with several slogans; one was "Bread for all, and Roses, too!"—the same phrase that Helen Todd used in her speech the previous summer. [18] [19]