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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 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 .
Also known as "censitary suffrage", it is the opposite of equal suffrage, meaning that the votes cast by those eligible to vote are not equal, but weighed differently according to the person's income or rank in society (e.g., people who do not own property or whose income is lower than a given amount are barred from voting; or people with ...
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.
Lillian Mary Harris (1887–1964) – English militant suffragette Mary Dormer Harris (1867–1936) – suffragist, writer and organiser of local conferences in the Midlands [ 12 ] Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) – linguist, feminist, co-founder of modern studies in Greek mythology, supporter of women's suffrage
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.
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Anti-suffragists claimed that they represented the "silent majority" of America who did not want to enter the public sphere by gaining the right to vote. [83] Being against women's suffrage didn't mean, however, that all Antis were against civic pursuits. [84] Jeanette L. Gilder, a journalist, wrote "Give women everything she wants, but not the ...