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Frontpage article of the Seattle Sunday times on a national gathering of Suffragettes, June 27 1909 |
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Working Class women marching in London, 1911 |
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During the Great War many suffragette-groups stopped their campaign to support the war-effort |
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But not all suffragettes: These women in New Jersey campaigned for women’s rights in 1915 |
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This is Suzanna ‘Suze’ Groeneweg, who became the first Dutch MP in 1918, for the Social-Democratic Labour Party. This was one year before Women’s Suffrage was approved, and three more years before they actually had a chance to vote. |
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This is Sylvia Pankhurst, a very militant British Suffragette. She started of as the leader of a local suffragette group in East London. Her local group split off the main group and helped form the British Communist Party. She was very active in anti-fascism and anti-colonialism, as seen in the right picture.
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Suffragettes let themselves be imprisoned regularly to keep the movement in the news |
Aren’t these pictures of passionate women beautiful? Lately I’ve been gushing over 1900-1920 pictures, particulary those from the women Suffrage movement. I hope you enjoyed them too!
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