suffragettes
Women seeking ballots
Suffragettes were women who fought for the right to vote, particularly in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The term often implies militant tactics—marches, hunger strikes, civil disobedience—distinguishing suffragettes from the broader suffragist movement.
The suffragettes chained themselves to the railings outside Parliament.
Formal choices recorded
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- equalitySame status for all
- activismDirect effort for reform
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
petition · march · rally · demonstration · franchise · enfranchisement · emancipation · rights
Public expression of disapproval
- hunger strikeProtest through refusing food
- arsonCriminal deliberate burning
- window smashingBreaking glass panes violently
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
imprisonment · heckling · leafleting · chaining · disruption · sabotage · bombing · vandalism
Hue between crimson and azure
- greenColor of vegetation
- whiteAbsence of pigment
- sashWaist-worn cloth strip
- bannerDisplayed strip with message
rosette · badge · brooch · tricolor · ribbon · flag · medal · portcullis
- Seneca FallsHistoric New York reform gathering
- 1920Post-WWI year
- 1918World War's closing year
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
Victorian · Westminster · Hyde Park · Holloway · hunger strike · Black Friday
Suffragist leader, dollar namesake
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- Ida B WellsInvestigative journalist, civil rights pioneer
- Harriet Tubman
votes
Formal choices recorded
campaign · petition · march · rally · demonstration · franchise · enfranchisement · emancipation · rights · liberation
protest
Public expression of disapproval
- hunger strikeProtest through refusing food
- arsonCriminal deliberate burning
- window smashingBreaking glass panes violently
civil disobedience · imprisonment · heckling · leafleting · chaining · disruption · sabotage · bombing · vandalism · obstruction
purple
Hue between crimson and azure
banner · rosette · badge · brooch · tricolor · ribbon · flag · medal · portcullis · prison
Emmeline
- Seneca FallsHistoric New York reform gathering
- 1920Post-WWI year
- 1918World War's closing year
Edwardian · Victorian · Westminster · Hyde Park · Holloway · hunger strike · Black Friday
Susan B Anthony
Suffragist leader, dollar namesake
- Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator
- Ida B WellsInvestigative journalist, civil rights pioneer
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- BritainEngland, Wales, Scotland, London, Northern Ireland
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
suffragettesreactionaries
Those opposing progressive change
old guard · oppressors · conservatives · traditionalists · counterrevolutionaries
- suffragette movementCampaign for female enfranchisement