suffragette
Sign in to saveA suffragette was a member or supporter of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an activist women's group agitating for votes for women, which in the early 20th century broke away from the much larger, peaceful and longer lasting National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), whose supporters were known as suffragists. Both organisations campaigned for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. However, the Women's Social and Political Union, a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, engaged in direct action and civil disobedience a
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A suffragette was a member of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only activist group founded in 1903 that fought for women's voting rights through direct action and civil disobedience, distinguishing themselves from the larger, peaceful suffragist movement. The suffragettes' militant tactics made them a distinctive and controversial force in the early 20th-century campaign for women's right to vote in the United Kingdom.
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Key facts
- Organisation.name
- Suffragette
- Organisation.named_after
- Suffragist
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- Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst (cropped).jpg
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- 220px
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- Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the WSPU in 1906
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- First suffragettes
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- Women's Social and Political Union
- Organisation.founder
- Emmeline Pankhurst (WSPU)
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- Later groups
- Organisation.purpose
- Votes for women
- Organisation.methods
- Marches, heckling, civil disobedience, direct action, hunger strike, terrorism (see suffragette bombing and arson campaign)
Article
23 sectionsContents
- Background
- Women's suffrage
- Earlier British suffragists
- Formation of the WSPU
- Charles E. Hands
- WSPU campaigns
- Imprisonment
- Hunger strikes and force-feeding
- Legislation
- The Bodyguard
- World War I
- 1918 general election, women members of parliament
- Legacy
- Notable women
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
A suffragette was a member or supporter of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an activist women's group agitating for votes for women, which in the early 20th century broke away from the much larger, peaceful and longer lasting National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), whose supporters were known as suffragists. Both organisations campaigned for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. However, the Women's Social and Political Union, a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, engaged in direct action and civil disobedience as a result of what they saw as slow progress towards universal suffrage. In 1906, a journalist writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), reportedly to 'indicate that special revolutionary quality of impatience which marked the new variety of suffragist', although Elizabeth Crawford, a researcher and author on the women's suffrage movement, has suggested it was to 'belittle and to show that they were less than the proper kind of suffrage worker'. Whatever the truth was, the militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU.
thumb|Flag of the Women's Social and Political Union. Purple represents loyalty and dignity, white represents purity, and green represents hope. thumb|De La Rue playing cards back from 1910