Search results for "Suffragette" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Emmeline Pankhurst (July 14, 1858 – June 14, 1928) was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement and one of Britain's most ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- ===Suffragette=== In 1868 she and Belva Lockwood testified before the Judiciary Committee of the District of Columbia House of Delegates, on a ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- and upon graduation began work as a suffragette activist in Buffalo, New York. In 1917, she campaigned successfully for the passage of a state ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- was neither an abolitionist nor a suffragette. Beecher strongly supported allowing children to simply be children and not forcing adulthood upon ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- revolutionary nationalist and suffragette. During the Easter Rising of 1917, she was an officer in the Irish Citizens Army. In 1918, she was ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
- of Alice Stone Blackwell, another prominent suffragette, journalist and human rights defender. Stone was best known for being the first recorded ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
- His wife Katharine, a suffragette, funded Gregory Pincus's research of the first birth control pill. ==Awards== Numerous prizes and medals ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- While in England, she identified with the Suffragette movement. Also in England, she was encouraged by the poets Arthur Simon and Edmond Gausse to ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage—the right to vote—to women ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- Mary Cheney, a schoolteacher and sometime suffragette. Greeley would sleep in a boarding house when in New York City after working 18 hour days at ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- His daughter, Winifred, worked for the suffragette movement. His grandson is Richard Rorty, a leading U. S. philosopher. His great-grandson, ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- disabled, as well as numerous causes. She was a suffragette, a pacifist and a supporter of birth control. In 1915, she founded Helen Keller International ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 08:35, 21 January 2024
- gravitating to, the spirit of the suffragette movement which found fertile ground in central New York, Bailey believed women could make a significant ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 22:29, 25 October 2022
- Germany and Poland. His mother was the noted suffragette, Pauline Steinem. Gloria's family traveled in a trailer across the country so that her ...20 KB (2,905 words) - 05:30, 17 December 2022
- Virginia, and Katharine Martha Houghton, a suffragette. Her father insisted that his children be athletic, and encouraged swimming, horse riding, golf ...23 KB (3,401 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement (Abacus, 2004 ... * Phillips, Melanie. The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette ...71 KB (9,858 words) - 17:15, 26 March 2024
- Swanston Howard, or V. S. Howard (1868–1937, a suffragette and Christian scientist) [https://lccn.loc.gov/n85237306 "Howard, Velma Swanston ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- and Beatrice Ives, a concert pianist and suffragette. He was born on the day that Babe Ruth hit his first home run. At eighteen months, Welles ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
