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Some radical techniques used by the suffragettes were learned from Russian exiles from tsarism who had escaped to England. [40] In 1914, at least seven churches were bombed or set on fire across the United Kingdom, including Westminster Abbey, where an explosion aimed at destroying the 700-year-old Coronation Chair, only caused minor damage. [41]
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 ...
Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [1] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.
This is a list of British suffragists and suffragettes who were born in the British Isles or whose lives and ... (c. 1864 – 1954) – co-founded the first London ...
The AERA essentially collapsed after an acrimonious convention in 1869, and two rival women's suffrage organizations were created in its wake. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was created on May 15, 1869, two days after what turned out to be the AERA's last convention, with Anthony and Stanton as its primary leaders. [15]
Fusae Ichikawa (1893–1981) – politician who founded the nation's first women's suffrage organization: the Women's Suffrage League of Japan, president of the New Japan Women's League; Shidzue KatÅ (1897–2001) – politician; Oku Mumeo (1895–1997) – co-founder of the New Women's Association who later served three terms in Japan's ...
Activists campaigned for suffrage in ways that were still considered by many to be "unladylike," such as marching in parades and giving street corner speeches on soap boxes. In New York in 1912, suffragists organized a twelve-day, 170-mile "Hike to Albany" to deliver suffrage petitions to the new governor.
Votes for Women, the suffragette newspaper founded by the Pethick-Lawrences Pethick-Lawrence, left, with Women at the Hague in 1915, including Jane Addams and Annie E. Molloy. Pethick-Lawrence was a member of the Suffrage Society and was introduced to Emmeline Pankhurst in 1906.