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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 ...
Emily Davison wearing her Holloway brooch and hunger strike medal, c. 1910–1912. Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century.
Maud Joachim (1869–1947) – suffragette who was one of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike; Ellen Isabel Jones (died 1948) – suffragette and close associate of the Pankhursts; Helena Jones (1870–1946) – Welsh doctor and member of the WSPU; Mabel Jones (1865–1923) – doctor and suffragette
Anna Petronella van Heerden (1887–1975) – campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1920s and the first Afrikaner woman to qualify as a medical doctor [13] Mary Emma Macintosh (died 1916) – suffragist and the first President of the Women's Enfranchisement Association of the Union [14]
The front page of The Daily Mirror, 19 November 1910, showing a suffragette on the ground.. Black Friday was a suffragette demonstration in London on 18 November 1910, in which 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure voting rights for women.
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Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper. [70] Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. [71] Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist. [72]
Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population. And though we are by no means a monolith — in fact, we fall into every ethnic, socioeconomic, religious and ideological group — we have historically been underrepresented politically.