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SUFFRAGETES
EMILY DAVIDSON
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King George V and Queen Mary were there as the King’s horse, was running in the race.
During the race a suffragette named Emily Davidson passed under the rails and rushed on to the racecourse to attract attention on women’s protests
The first horse missed her, but she ran right into the track of the King’s horse and died
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SUFFRAGISTS
A group of feminists started a movement for women's rights called “The Cause”. It had no particular political focus.
The first suffragists movements wanted the vote for middle class women. They believed they would achieve it using peaceful tactics - non-violent demonstrations and petitions to the Parliament.
But soon the movment to gain votes for women divided into wings, the suffragists and the suffragettes.
Emmenline Pankhurst, who had been a member of the Manchester suffragist group, had grown impatient with the middle class, respectable tactics of this group
In 1903 she decided to break with them and set up a separate society. This became known as the women’s social and political union (WSPU)
As peaceful methods didn’t seem to work, the W.S.P.U. began to
break the law to gain publicity and support.
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They began a campaign of vandalism – smashing shop windows, painted slogans on buildings, cut telephone wires and slashed paintings in art galleries.
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The prison authorities fed these women by force, although this was dangerous to their health.
In a period of eighteen months, Emmeline Pankhurst, who was 50 years old, endured 10 of these hunger strikes.
She studied in Paris and at the age of 20, she married Dr Richard Pankhurst, a liberal lawyer 24 years her senior.
Dr Pankhurst was a socialist and a supporter of radical causes, including women's rights and had a place of great respect in the
Independent Party.