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hunger strike
hunger strike refusal to eat as a protest against existing conditions. Although most often used by prisoners, others have also employed it. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in India and Cesar Chavez in California fasted as religious penance during otherwise political or economic disputes. An ancien... Read more
Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst
Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst , 1858-1928, British woman suffragist. Disappointed in the disinterest in women's suffrage shown by the Liberal party, the Fabian Society, and the Independent Labour party, she founded (1903) her own movement, the Women's Social and Political Union. Using spectacular milit... Read more
Paulina Wright Davis
Paulina Wright Davis 1813-76, American lecturer and suffragist, b. Bloomfield, N.Y. Born Paulina Kellogg, she was married in 1833 to a merchant, Francis Wright, who died two years later. In 1849 she was married again, this time to Thomas Davis, who later became a congressman from Rhode Island. She ... Read more
Timothy Michael Healy
Timothy Michael Healy 1855-1931, Irish statesman, first governor-general of the Irish Free State (1922-27). Elected to Parliament in 1880, he worked closely with Charles Stewart Parnell until the O'Shea divorce scandal (1890). Thereafter he led the anti-Parnell nationalists in Parliament. He was ... Read more
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt 1859-1947, American suffragist and peace advocate, b. Carrie Lane, Ripon, Wis., grad. Iowa State College (now Iowa State Univ.), 1880. She was superintendent of schools (1883-84) in Mason City, Iowa. In 1885 she married Lee Chapman, a journalist (d. 1886), and in 1890, George Ca... Read more
woman suffrage
woman suffrage the right of women to vote. Throughout the latter part of the 19th cent. the issue of women's voting rights was an important phase of feminism . In the United States It was first seriously proposed in the United States at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 1848, in a general dec... Read more
Dame Rebecca West
Dame Rebecca West 1892-1983, English novelist and critic, b. Ireland as Cicily Isabel Fairfield. West began her career as a journalist for feminist and suffragist publications. At various times she served as a literary critic and political writer for American and British journals. Her trenchant vol... Read more
civil disobedience
civil disobedience refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. Practitioners of civil disobediance basing their actions on moral right and usually employ the nonviolent technique of passive resistance in order to bring wider attention to the injustice. Risking punishment, such... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Suffragist"

hunger strike
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...early 20th cent. by militant woman suffragists and became the accepted technique of those sentenced for suffragist activities. The passage of the...1917 and 1919 by American woman suffragists and also by conscientious objectors...
Nineteenth Amendment
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...preoccupied with the question of slavery, the suffragists decided to focus their attention on...provided the first victories for the suffragists. The movement then suffered a series...1887 and voted to defeat the bill. The suffragists continued their state-by-state strategy...
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...biography of this unrevolutionary suffragist since 1931 when a friend...Britain's small band of suffragists. When the organizations...in 1919). Although most suffragist women supported the Liberal...problems confronting the suffragists were complex. Although some...
Feminism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...used it in a letter to the American suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B...nineteenth‐century American suffragists did not refer to themselves as “...advocates of women's rights or as suffragists. In 1910, a group of young women in...
woman suffrage
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...who had helped win it for them, the suffragists for the most part confined their efforts...Social and Political Union. The militant suffragists were determined to keep their objective...strike . When World War I broke out, the suffragists ceased all militant activity and devoted...
Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Pankhurst , 1858-1928, British woman suffragist. Disappointed in the disinterest in...turned her powers of leadership from the suffragist movement to the war effort. After the...Pankhurst, 1880-1958, was also a suffragist. Educated for the bar but refused admittance...
Hunger Strikes
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...twentieth century in England by women suffragists. A global phenomenon, hunger strikes...Tibet. Prisoners, priests, students, suffragists, nationalists, pacifists, and activists...controversial precedent set in the early suffragist movement in England, has since been...
National Woman's Party
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...constitutional amendment to enfranchise women. (American suffragists at the time were focused on winning suffrage through individual...was formed. Members tended to be younger, more militant suffragists. Important figures included Mary Beard ; Florence Kelley...
women's suffrage
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929), as suffragists. In 1912, when other means were failing to break Asquith...Sinclair , A. Meynell , S. Grand , R. West , and V. Hunt . Suffragists and suffragettes were widely portrayed in the literature...
Younger, Maud
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Maud Younger American suffragist Maud Younger (1870 – 1936) was a leading figure in...that the New York's East Side had transformed her into a woman suffragist. The "Million Dollar" Waitress While living in New York, Younger...

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suffragist
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English suf·fra·gist / ˈsəfrəjist / • n. chiefly hist. a person advocating the extension of suffrage, esp. to women. DERIVATIVES: suf·fra·gism / x2CC;jizəm / n.
Dorr's Rebellion
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...as well as freeholders. Suffragists relied on the principles...Freeholders' document. The suffragists then held elections for a...conceded most of what the suffragists had demanded. In Luther...Court refused to endorse suffragist theories of popular sovereignty...
Goldstein, Vida Mary Jane
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Goldstein, Vida Mary Jane (b. 13 Apr. 1869, d. 15 Aug. 1949). Australian feminist and suffragist Born at Portland (Victoria) of a suffragist mother, she was educated privately and ran a coeducational primary school with her sisters...
Paul, Alice
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...1916 US National Woman's Party and campaigned for women to be granted the vote at all levels of government. A militant suffragist , she energized the movement through her hunger strikes and her fiery rhetoric. After political equality in 1920 had been...
Phrenology
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...reformers, including the Protestant clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, the newspaper editor Horace Greeley, the abolitionist and suffragist Sarah M. Grimk é , Samuel Gridley Howe (who advocated for the blind and the "feebleminded"), and the educator...
Women and the Peace Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...WILPF as a transnational attempt by women to stop the war. Prior to the WILPF, the Women's Peace Party, a faction of the suffragist movement, had been commitedly antiwar and was strongly involved in the groups emerging to prevent the entry of the United...
Women in Churches
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...By the nineteenth century, some women had grown critical of religious traditions that condemned or limited them. Some suffragists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, developed strong critiques of the churches. Other women simply left existing groups to...
suffragettes
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...modern scholarship. The term ‘suffragette’ was coined by the Daily Mail to distinguish them from the suffragists who had been working for the vote since 1866. The movement originated with Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel...
League of Women Voters
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of Women Voters to forward this goal. On 14 February 1920, the organization came to life with Maud Wood Park, a leading suffragist, as president. The League focused on educating women to vote. The method they used became a hallmark of the organization...
Magazines
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Chimney Corner frequently offered support for elements of women's equality, and other magazines did so more sporadically, suffragist and feminist political magazines were a smaller separate category, lacking the advertising support that came to dominate...

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HOUSE APPROVES REP. BERKLEY BILL HONORING AMERICA'S SUFFRAGISTS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 5/9/2007; 700+ words ; ...NV) honoring America's suffragists. The bill was inspired by...Those who took part in the suffragist movement are role models...the tireless work of the suffragists and the lasting contribution...work to honor America's suffragists grew out of a request from...
Rep. Berkley Introduces Resolution Supporting Goals, Ideals of a National Suffragists Day
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/5/2007; 700+ words ; ...the goals and ideals of a National Suffragists Day to promote awareness of the importance of the women suffragists who worked for the right of women...the goals and ideals of a National Suffragists Day to promote awareness of the importance...
The suffragists' struggle
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/24/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...that wasn't hurled at a suffragist. Elizabeth Cady Stanton...seemed stuck in what even the suffragists called "the doldrums...ratified by one vote. As the suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt wrote...chain of activity. Young suffragists who helped forge the last...
Women, war, and demands for full citizenship.(Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War; Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929)(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Press, 2008. Allison L. Sneider. Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion...military service. Jensen characterizes the suffragists' position on imperialism at the turn...divided. She argues that many white suffragists, Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton...
SUFFRAGISTS' STATUE TO GET EQUAL VISIBILITY.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 3/2/1997; 558 words ; ...a mammoth sculpture of three leading suffragists from the Capitol's ground floor to...fall apart earlier this month when the suffragists' statue confronted, well, the statue...scheduled to be moved to make room for the suffragists. That plan did not sit well with Sen...
Suffragists would vote 'no' on 'Angels'
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/12/2004; ; 700+ words ; TELEVISION Suffragists would vote 'no' on...history, old-guard suffragists Carrie Chapman Catt...the formidable black suffragist, marches on to speak...Garnier finally makes the suffragists' courage grippingly...
Rescue sought for suffragist's home
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/13/2001; ; 700+ words ; Rescue sought for suffragist's home New Berlin...Wisconsin's leading suffragists could be demolished...Stroud said of the suffragist who was born in Ashippun...a historian and the suffragist's niece, Miriam...publisher. Like many other suffragists, she used her communication...
Suffragist Souvenirs Are Worth The Hunt
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/27/1994; ; 599 words ; ...grandmothers had kept every souvenir of the suffragist movement - in mint condition, of course...University and an avid collector of suffragist memorabilia, says that rare buttons...card decks that feature a sour-faced suffragist. Obviously, not all of the era's...
Three suffragists -- and Truth -- can all fit in the Capitol Rotunda
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/27/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...block of marble for her suffragist statue. Anything lighter...were charges that the suffragists and even the statue...statue of three white suffragists was a historic lie because...excluded this black suffragist. It boiled down to...
SCRAPBOOKS HOLD HISTORY OF SUFFRAGISTS.(Neighbors)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 9/4/2008; 700+ words ; ...in Peterboro. A study of seven suffragist scrapbooks will be the subject...Congress, will present Catch the Suffragists' Spirit, sharing her research...PAGE from a Library of Congress suffragist scrapbook includes a photograph...