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A suffragette, believed to be Ada Wright, lies on the ground with gloved hands over her face near the entrance to the House of Commons, London, during the Black Friday protests of 18 November 1910. The photograph was taken by Victor Consolé, a news agency photographer, and published the following day, including by The Daily Mirror and The ...
The front page of The Daily Mirror that day showed a large photograph of a suffragette on the ground, having been hit by a policeman during Black Friday; the image is probably that of Ada Wright. [68] [69] [k] The art editor of the newspaper forwarded the photograph to the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police for comments. He initially tried to ...
Both suffragettes and police spoke of a "Reign of Terror"; newspaper headlines referred to "Suffragette Terrorism". [45] One suffragette, Emily Davison, died under the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby on 4 June 1913. It is debated whether she was trying to pull down the horse, attach a suffragette scarf or banner to it, or commit suicide to ...
American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, took action in Glasgow that August.
Women's Sunday was a suffragette march and rally held in London on 21 June 1908. Organised by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to persuade the Liberal government to support votes for women, it is thought to have been the largest demonstration to be held until then in the country.
The Battle of Downing Street was a march of suffragettes to Downing Street, London, on 22 November 1910.Organized by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union, the march took place four days after Black Friday, a suffragette protest outside the House of Commons that saw the women violently attacked by police.
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.
A viral black and white photo of women eating pie in 1921 is being shared on social media alongside a false caption.