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9. März 2017 · Emmeline Pankhurst, a leader of the British suffrage movement, addressed a meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1913, explaining why women had to adopt revolutionary methods to win the vote. She argued that women were human beings and citizens who had a right to self-government and challenged the American audience to understand their cause.
You won your freedom in America when you had the revolution, by bloodshed, by sacrificing human life. You won the civil war by the sacrifice of human life when you decided to emancipate the negro...
23. Mai 2020 · As founder in 1903 of England’s Woman’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), an openly militant suffrage organization, Pankhurst was a flashpoint figure in British women’s struggle for the vote.
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- The Impact of Pankhurst’s Hartford Speech
As a political activist, Emmeline Pankhurst played a vocal role in organizing rallies and helping women earn the right to vote in England. This militant champion founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), staged hunger strikes, and took part in countless demonstrations. As a result of their combative tactics, police arrested Pankhurst a...
With a banner reading “Resistance to Tyranny Is Obedience to God,” Pankhurst alluded to the American Revolutionand patriots such as Patrick Henry, saying, “We will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death.” Anti-suffragists, she said, were “the enemy,” but true “American suffragists c...
Throughout the speech, which held her audience rapt, Pankhurst continually defended the militancy of the British suffragettes, emphasizing that it was only way to force her government—and the US government—to acknowledge women’s rights. Despite the violent and aggressive tone of her speech, Pankhurst earned approximately $1,400 in donations (worth ...
Am 3. April 1913 wurde Pankhurst im Old Bailey als Drahtzieherin eines Bombenanschlags auf das Landhaus des britischen Schatzkanzlers David Lloyd George zu drei Jahren Haft verurteilt.
1. Apr. 2024 · Emmeline Pankhurst, militant champion of woman suffrage whose 40-year campaign, which included numerous arrests, achieved complete success in the year of her death, when British women obtained equality in the voting franchise. Learn more about Pankhurst’s life and career.
Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland.
