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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 strike
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...suffragists and became the accepted technique of those sentenced for suffragist activities. The passage of the so-called Cat-and-Mouse...authorities had resorted. The Franchise Act of 1918 ended the suffragist hunger strikes in England. The hunger strike was used by...
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...standard-bearer for the feminist movement. Along with fellow suffragist susan b. anthony and other activists, she helped elevate...joined forces with Anthony, the country's most prominent suffragist. For the next fifty years, Anthony was Stanton's staunchest...
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Rankin, Jeannette
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Rankin, Jeannette (1880–1973), pacifist, suffragist, and congresswoman.After successfully leading the suffragist movement in Montana, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress. A progressive Republican and...
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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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Beard, Mary
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Voter , a publication of the Woman Suffrage party of New York; started a suffragist organization for working women; and joined the Congressional Union, a militant suffragist faction led by Alice Paul that became the National Woman's party...
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Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...to write a full-length biography of this unrevolutionary suffragist since 1931 when a friend did the rather bland, official life...and served until her retirement in 1919). Although most suffragist women supported the Liberal Party, Fawcett broke with the...
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Eastman, Crystal
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...Eastman was a consistent supporter of socialist politics, the suffragist movement, and feminism throughout her life. Eastman was...Relations in 1913. That same year, Eastman, along with suffragist alice paul and several others, helped to found the militant...
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Margaret Grace Bondfield
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...a lifelong advocate of improving the lives of working women, working toward this goal in her roles as a labor activist, suffragist, and politician. Beginning her career as a working class woman herself, her reform efforts eventually brought her into...
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Peck, Annie Smith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...reaching the highest altitude in the Americas after her arduous ascent of Peru's Mt. Huascarán in 1908 at age 58. A suffragist, Peck was determined to prove that women were on equal footing with men in all realms. "When she first started mountaineering...
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