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Votes for Women - 1916 postcard: "I May be your leader some day"

A portrait of Suffragette Emmeline Pankurst

Votes for Women Suffragette Sash [CostumierSaurus on Etsy]

London, May 22, 1914- Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested again after protesting for women's right to vote. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the female activist was arrested near Buckingham Palace. What happened? What were the consequences? And most importantly: What was she wearing!? Emmeline Pankhurst, born on july 15 1858 in Manchester, was an English woman who dedicated her life to helping women to win their right to vote. Her parents, middle-class merchants, were both politically active so…

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Who benefitted from the women's suffrage movement in north america? Who didn’t?

Suffragette (2015)

"Pankhurst was horrified by the screams of women being force-fed during hunger strikes. In her autobiography she wrote: 'I shall never while I live forget the suffering I experienced during the days when those cries were ringing in my ears.'"

A portrait of Christabel Pankhurst, by Ethel Wright.

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