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  2. Silent Sentinels - Wikipedia

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    Silent Sentinels picketing the White House. The Silent Sentinels, also known as the Sentinels of Liberty, [1] [2] [3] were a group of over 2,000 women in favor of women's suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, who nonviolently protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson's presidency starting on January 10, 1917. [4]

  3. 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.

  4. 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]

  5. List of suffragette bombings - Wikipedia

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    A woman discovered the bomb, made from 24 cartridges of gunpowder, with the fuse burning in the ladies lavatory. She picked up the device and plunged it into water in a sink, extinguishing the fuse. [33] 10 May 1913: A parcel bomb is discovered at Reading Post Office, addressed to the municipal office in the town. The parcel had been found ...

  6. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court would rule that women had a constitutional right to vote, suffragists made several attempts to vote in the early 1870s and then filed lawsuits when they were turned away. Anthony actually succeeded in voting in 1872 but was arrested for that act and found guilty in a widely publicized trial that gave the ...

  7. Suffragette - Wikipedia

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    When the Pankhursts decided to stop their militancy at the start of the war and enthusiastically support the war effort, the movement split and their leadership role ended. Suffrage came four years later, but the feminist movement in Britain permanently abandoned the militant tactics that had made the suffragettes famous. [90] [91]

  8. Suffragette bombing and arson campaign - Wikipedia

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    The "suffragists" of the largest women's suffrage society, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, led by Millicent Fawcett, were anti-violence, and during the campaign NUWSS propaganda and Fawcett herself increasingly differentiated between the militants of the WSPU and their own non-violent means.

  9. Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    An estimate of 1,000 people staged a protest in Nouméa against government policies regarding the pandemic, such as the introduction of health passes and vaccine mandates. The protest occurred a day after outdoor gatherings in New Caledonia were limited to 30 people, however police decided not to intervene due to the presence of children.