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In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst and others, frustrated by the lack of progress, decided more direct action was required and founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) with the motto ‘Deeds not words’.
and others, frustrated by the lack of progress, decided more direct action was required and founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) with the motto ‘Deeds not words’.
Suffragette is based on true events, but how true does it stay to the people and incidents it depicts? Mulligan’s Maud is an original character — the details of her life were sketched in part from the real memoirs of seamstress and suffragette Hannah Mitchell.
In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst and others, frustrated by the lack of progress, decided more direct action was required and founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) with the motto ‘Deeds not words’. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) became involved in women’s suffrage in 1880.
Women’s suffrage in Australia was one of the earliest objectives of the movement for gender equality in Australia. It began to be socially and politically accepted and legislated during the late 19th century, beginning with South Australia in 1894 and Western Australia in 1899.
The campaign to achieve women’s suffrage went back many years. Its origins were said to lie in 1832. … A woman called Mary Smith handed in a petition to Parliament asking that women who qualified for the vote should also be given the vote. The campaign developed through the 19th and into the 20th century.
It had the added advantage of taking the heat out of the female suffrage movement. Yet more than half of women still did not have a say in electing their government. Moderate campaigning would continue until 1928 when women were finally granted the vote on equal terms to men.
The new Hollywood film Suffragette out today tells the story of Maud Watts, a working class suffragette played by Carey Mulligan. Her character is entirely fictional, but the film is rooted in the history of the women’s suffrage movement and was written using original testimonies.
Maud Joachim | |
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Nationality | British |
Education | Girton College |
Known for | Suffragette |
Edith Margaret Garrud | |
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Occupation | Martial arts instructor |
The Senate debated what came to be known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment periodically for more than four decades. Approved by the Senate on June 4, 1919, and ratified in August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment marked one stage in women’s long fight for political equality.
Mary Richardson was a Suffragette who found most fame when she vandalised a painting by Velasquez at the National Gallery in London. Few would dispute that Richardson was one of the more hard line Suffragettes, as her friendship with Emily Wilding Davison of 1913 Derby fame would indicate.
June 8, 1913
On 19 September 1893 the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law. As a result of this landmark legislation, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
One hundred years ago this August, the 19th Amendment was ratified, guaranteeing that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Supporters of women’s suffrage fought for decades to achieve this milestone.
The Act extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also known as the right to vote, to men aged over 21, whether or not they owned property, and to women aged over 30 who resided in the constituency or occupied land or premises with a rateable value above £5, or whose husbands did.
It was a decisive victory, and the split among Democrats and Republicans was staggering. In all, over 200 Republicans voted in favor of the 19th Amendment, while only 102 Democrats voted alongside them. Subsequently, on June 4, 1919, the 19th Amendment passed the Senate by a vote of 56 to 25.
White, purple, and yellow
British suffragists were the first to use the colors purple, white, and green and, inspired by that example, the National Woman’s Party, the militant U.S. organization dedicated to enshrining women’s suffrage in the Constitution, adopted white, purple and yellow as its colors.
Many suffrage organisations adopted colours to symbolise their agenda. In Britain, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies used red and white in their banners, later adding green. The WSPU chose white, purple and green: white for purity, purple for dignity and green for hope.