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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

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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.
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...
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...
Hall, Asaph
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...little for a classical education. Among the students, however, he met Chloe Angeline Stickney, a frail but determined suffragist, who taught mathematics while completing her senior year. Hall was among her pupils, and she soon became his fianc...
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...
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Catt, Carrie Chapman (b. 9 Jan. 1859, d. 9 Mar. 1947). US suffragist Born at Ripon, Wisconsin, she was present at the founding of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890. As its...
Dorr's Rebellion
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...conceded most of what the suffragists had demanded. In Luther v. Borden (1849) the U.S. Supreme Court refused to endorse suffragist theories of popular sovereignty. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared such matters to be political questions committed...
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...
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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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...
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 group, others...amount to her," Stroud said of the suffragist who was born in Ashippun in 1863...Youmans from a historian and the suffragist's niece, Miriam Wellford, who...
A BLOOMIN' BIRTHDAY PARTY; SUFFRAGIST ELIZABETH SMITH MILLER TO BE HONORED AT MUSEUM IN PETERBORO.(Neighbors East)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 9/25/2003; 700+ words ; ...known as a hotbed of abolitionist and suffragist activities in the 1800s, will be abloom...homemaker. It also will describe her suffragist activities and her relationship with her cousin, famed suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A birthday...
A BLOOMIN' BIRTHDAY PARTY IN PETERBORO; SUFFRAGIST ELIZABETH SMITH MILLER TO BE HONORED AT MUSEUM IN PETERBORO.(Neighbors Madison)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 9/25/2003; 700+ words ; ...known as a hotbed of abolitionist and suffragist activities in the 1800s, will be abloom...homemaker. It also will describe her suffragist activities and her relationship with her cousin, famed suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A birthday...
Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist. By Lynn E. Niedermeier. (Lexington...Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist offers a thoroughly fascinating biography...why was such a prolific author and suffragist neglected for so long? However, it...
Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist. By Lynn E. Niedermeier. (Lexington...Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist offers a thoroughly fascinating biography...why was such a prolific audior and suffragist neglected for so long? However, it...
SUFFRAGIST STATUE FIGHT FINALLY BRINGS `HER' INTO `HIS-TORY'.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/29/1997; 700+ words ; ...Adelaide Johnson chose a 13-ton block of marble for her suffragist statue. Anything lighter would have cracked by now under...suffragists was a historic lie because it excluded this black suffragist. It boiled down to the demand: No Truth, no move. This...
A suffragist and her enduring legacy Book Review
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/13/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...New York Times International Herald Tribune 06-13-2009 A suffragist and her enduring legacy Book Review Byline: Leah Hager Cohen...alternate among the lives of Dorothy Trevor Townsend, a British suffragist, and a handful of her descendants. Several of the stories...
LOCAL SUFFRAGIST INSPIRES FEMINIST AUTHOR; "SHE KNOCKS ON MY DOOR," SAYS WRITER WHOSE TALK WILL BENEFIT GAGE FOUNDATION.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 9/30/2005; 700+ words ; ...theologian Mary Daly is working, she consults the 19th-century suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. "I invite her here," Daly said in...behind her time." Daly read a quotation Gage published in her suffragist newspaper, National Citizen and Ballot Box, in 1889...
DENVER SUFFRAGIST CUT JOURNALISTIC TRAIL.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 9/29/1998; 700+ words ; ...Reynolds' older sister, Helen M. Reynolds, also a dedicated suffragist, joined her sister in Denver. Helen became campaign secretary...passed the Senate by a two-thirds majority was credited by suffragist Carrie Lane Chapman ``to the persistent lobbying of Minnie...