One of the most controversial incidents of the suffrage campaign in Scotland was the appearance in March 1914 of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst at St Andrew’s Halls. The meeting was organised by the WSPU, but ...
Today it is a museum dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragette movement. Image caption, Here, on the left, we see the former headquarters of the WSPU, located in London, England.
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Women were beaten on the streets by police, shoved in front of police horses, then imprisoned and force-fed by doctors, as she outlined in harrowing detail in her book on the Suffragette movement.
Alice Paul, chief strategist for the militant wing of the suffrage movement and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, was born on Jan. 11, 1885, in Moorestown, New Jersey. The product of an upper ...
By 1872 the National Society for Women’s Suffrage was created, the first national movement with women’s rights solely in mind. Other groups followed, so that by 1897 the National Union of Women’s ...