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Jessie Margaret Soga, LRAM (21 August 1870 [1] [2] – 23 February 1954 [3] [4]) was a Xhosa/Scottish contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist.She was described as the only black/mixed race suffrage campaigner based in Scotland. [5]
Gibb was born and died in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Her father was Peter Walker Gibb, a fish merchant, and her mother was Margaret Skirving, founder of the Glasgow Ladies Chess Club 1905 and president of the club until her death in 1918. She was one of six siblings, one of whom was fellow suffragette Ellison Scotland Gibb.
Amy Sanderson née Reid (1876–1931), was a Scottish suffragette, national executive committee member of the Women's Freedom League, who was imprisoned twice.She was key speaker at the 1912 Hyde Park women's rally, after marching from Edinburgh to London, [1] and, with Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Greig, was a British delegate to the 1908 [2] and 1923 international women's congresses.
While Black, Indigenous, and immigrant women also fought for women's suffrage, their faces are rarely seen in historical imagery celebrating the 19th amendment. Photos give glimpses into the long ...
Suffragettes were arrested and imprisoned as they fought for voting rights. Photos from 1912 to 1920 chronicle their efforts and eventual victory.
Mary Pollock Grant (1876–1957) – Scottish suffragette, Liberal Party politician, missionary and policewoman; Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (1889–1914) – British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union; Elsa Gye (1881–1943) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned for the cause, led WSPU branches in Nottingham and ...
The following autumn, 1910, Thomson travelled to London to join the Pankhursts in their increasingly physical fight for women's right to vote. On 18th November 1910, the infamous clash between suffrage campaigners and police officers, known as Black Friday, took place on the streets of London. Thomson describes the day in her autobiography ...
Lillias Mitchell - Suffragette campaigner from Edinburgh. Ethel Moorhead - British suffragette and painter. Needs expanded, pic and infobox. Edith Mansell Moullin - ODNB; Anna Munro - active campaigner in the women's suffrage movement from Glasgow. Needs expanded, pic and infobox. Eunice Murray - Scottish suffrage campaigner and author. Needs ...