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On 18 Nov 1910 over 300 women marched down to Parliament as part of suffragette demonstration, known as Black Friday. The demonstration was met with much violence from the police. This cartoon titled ‘The Modern Andromeda’ shows a Suffragette chained outside No 10.

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2020-11-19

Just a few perhaps controversial pictures from our Graphic Art collection!

See the full range: https://t.co/s7FKr8rxYr

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2020-11-12

Drew a suffragette as my warmup today on stream. Feeling some feelings tonight!

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2020-11-04

this attitude flares up in times of much attention around feminism / times when women's roles were changing, as they very much were in the 1960s. you also see this trope in anti-suffragette stuff, like the cruel, demanding wife who makes the husband do the housework.

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2020-10-24

1/ Combattre les policiers avec des prises de Ju-jitsu ? C’est la technique employée par les suffragettes, féministes du début du XXème siècle, pour remporter l’opinion publique et conquérir leurs droits. Aujourd'hui, je vous raconte cette histoire digne d’un Tarantino survolté !

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2020-09-22

I read this to my class today and we had such a wonderful discussion about fairness and equality. I've just had an email from a parent saying their child came home enthusiastically discussing the suffragette movement. It has genuinely made my day!

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2020-09-21

The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy’s brothers go off, one by one, to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement.

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2020-09-11

Today launches its new Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection, making freely accessible nearly 200,000 artifacts, including images, videos, letters, diaries, speeches, maps, diaries, and oral histories. https://t.co/h1UviOsj5A

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2020-09-11

Only 100 years. I'm 56 years old. One of my grandmothers didn't have the right to vote when she was born. We've come far in that century but not nearly far enough - and yes though black women were crucial to the suffrage movement most did not win the vote until decades later.

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2020-08-28

“Woman with a Sunflower” was one of some 20 paintings by Cassatt included in a 1915 exhibition organized by her friend and collaborator, Louisine Havemeyer. Proceeds from entry fees and the sale of exhibition pamphlets were used to found the Woman Suffrage Campaign Fund.

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2020-08-27

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee championed the rights of women & Chinese Americans. She led a New York City suffrage parade, wrote articles, gave speeches & became the first Chinese woman to earn a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-27

It’s so we’re celebrating the kick-ass women of Here’s to 100 years of suffrage and continuing to smash that glass ceiling any way you can!

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2020-08-26

Inez Milholland sacrificed her life to secure votes for women. She led the DC suffrage parade & ensured that women of color could march. In 1916, the 30 yr old collapsed during a speech & later died, becoming a martyr for the cause. https://t.co/hg1v2LCYNc

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2020-08-26

Adelina Otero-Warren spoke up for women’s rights, especially in her home state, New Mexico, where she led the National Woman's Party chapter. She distributed suffrage literature in English & Spanish to reach a broad audience. https://t.co/hg1v2LCYNc

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2020-08-25

Alice Paul provoked controversy about women’s suffrage, which attracted valuable attention to the cause. She led a parade in Washington, DC and organized the nation’s first ever pickets of the White House. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-24

Lucy Burns dedicated her life to women's suffrage. She helped organize the 1913 parade in DC. She picketed the White House, was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in a workhouse. She went on hunger strikes & was force fed. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-22

Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871 - 1954) was an American illustrator. To help overcome the stereotype that artworks made by women are inferior she became increasingly vocal in promoting women’s work.

“The Suspected Suffragette”
“Gisele,” 1908.

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2020-08-19

Today is the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, allowing all women in the USA to vote!
Illustrations celebrating Women's Suffrage by , and !

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2020-08-19