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Emmeline Pankhurst introduced the song as the WSPU's official anthem, replacing "The Women's Marseillaise". [4] The latter song was a setting of words by WSPU activist Florence Macaulay to the tune of La Marseillaise. [5] On 23 March 1911 the song was performed at a rally in the Royal Albert Hall.
The United States’ Women's Suffrage movement involved thousands of women, each with differing backgrounds. One way that the movement was made accessible to many was through music. [1] Lyrics to suffragist songs were often original sociopolitical commentary. [1]
In the United States, the 1884 song "The Equal-Rights Banner" was sung to the tune of the US national anthem by American activists for women's voting rights. [1] "The March of the Women" and "The Women's Marseillaise" were sung by British suffragettes as anthems of the women's suffrage movement in the 1900s–1910s.
The song was sung in order to lift the spirits of prisoners in Holloway Prison in 1908. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Between 1908 and 1911, the Mascottes Ladies Band often performed "The Women's Marsellaise." [ 5 ] In 1913, "The Women's Marsellaise" was sung by a protester in Britain during the trial of two suffragettes . [ 6 ]
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Suffs is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 that gave some women the right to vote.
Wynonna Judd will appear at an event at Belmont University's Fisher Center on Mar. 27, 2024 honoring Nashville's female singer-songwriter organization
Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896.