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THE BRITISH SUFFRAGETES - Coggle Diagram
THE BRITISH SUFFRAGETES
In the nineteenth century women cuold not stand as candidates for Parliament, and they weren’t even allowed to vote
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A group of feminists started a movement for women's rights called “The Cause”. It had no particular political focus.
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But soon the movement to gain votes for women divided into two wings: suffragists and the suffragettes
Sufragist: Emmeline Pankhurst had grown impatient wiyh the middle class respectable tactics of this group
She was a socialist and supporter of radical causes, including women’s rights and had a place of great respect in the Independent Labour Party.
Mrs Pankhurst believed that young working class women would draw attention to the cause. Her daughters, Sylvia and Christabel, also joined the group.
When she was in prison, in a period of eighteen months, Emmeline Pankhurst, who was 50 years old, endured 10 of these hunger strikes.
The motto of the suffragettes was deeds not wordsand from 1912 onwards they became more militant and violent in their methods of campaign.
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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Many women were imprisoned for breaking the law. In here some women went on hunger strike to draw attention to their campaign.
The prison authorities fed these women by force, although this was dangerous to their health.
During the famous Derby horse race on 1913, 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.
In 1914, when the war broke out, Emmeline Pankhurst stopped the campaign and urged women to support the war instead.
In 1918, many of the MPs who had opposed votes for women had been replaced by younger men who supported it and things started to change.