women’s suffrage

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women's suffrage: Buckingham Palace demonstration, 1914

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Key People

Jovita Idár

Jovita Idár

Mexican American journalist, teacher, and activist

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

American suffragist

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American suffragist

Victoria Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull

American social reformer

Emily Davison

Emily Davison

British activist

Hertha Marks Ayrton.

Hertha Marks Ayrton

British physicist

Mary Ashton Rice Livermore.

Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

American activist

Pankhurst, Emmeline

Emmeline Pankhurst

British suffragist

Carrie Chapman Catt

Carrie Chapman Catt

American feminist leader

Charlotte Forten Grimké

Charlotte Forten Grimké

American abolitionist and educator

Blatch, Harriot Eaton Stanton

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

American suffragist

Abigail Jane Scott Duniway.

Abigail Jane Scott Duniway

American suffragist

May Sinclair

British writer and suffragist

Mary Putnam Jacobi

Mary Putnam Jacobi

American physician

Hardie, drawing by Cosmo Rowe; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

J. Keir Hardie

British labour leader

Isabella Beecher Hooker.

Isabella Beecher Hooker

American suffragist

Frances E.W. Harper

Frances E.W. Harper

American author and social reformer

Lillie Devereux Blake.

Lillie Devereux Blake

American author

Maud Wood Park.

Maud Wood Park

American suffragist

Bradwell, Myra

Myra Bradwell

American lawyer and editor

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Suffragettes with signs in London, possibly 1912 (based on Monday, Nov. 25). Woman suffrage movement, women's suffrage movement, suffragists, women's rights, feminism.

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Lucy Burns Speaking in from of a group of people. American Suffragist. Womens Rights. ca. 1910-1915

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