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As in the UK, the suffrage movement in America was divided into two disparate groups, with the National American Woman Suffrage Association representing the more militant campaign and the International Women's Suffrage Alliance taking a more cautious and pragmatic approach [81] Although the publicity surrounding Pankhurst's visit and the ...
Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878. However, a suffrage ...
Frances Balfour (1858–1931) – president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage; Florence Balgarnie (1856–1928) – suffragette, speaker, pacifist, feminist, temperance activist; Norah Balls (1886–1980) - Suffragette, women’s right campaigner, magistrate and councillor, co-founder of the Girl Guides movement in Northumberland.
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 ...
The women's right to vote, with its legislative representation, represented a paradigm shift where women would no longer be treated as second-class citizens without a voice. The women's suffrage campaign is the most deeply embedded campaign of the past 250 years. [127] [dubious – discuss] At first, suffrage was treated as a lower priority.
Recognized as the "Florence Nightingale" of the Philippines for her contributions to social work, as she displayed great courage and dedication through her initiatives for campaigning for women's suffrage and as a founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.
The Nightingale family refused to acknowledge the five Smith children due to what they perceived as illegitimacy. [ 8 ] Benjamin Leigh Smith's home was in Marylebone , London, but from 1816 he inherited and bought property near Hastings : Brown's Farm near Robertsbridge , with an extant house built about 1700, and Crowham Manor, Westfield ...