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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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