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@[]###A PIONEER OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE#LORD CURZON'S OPPOSITION@SUFFRAGISTS CAUSE SCENE AT NO.10#WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS IN HYDE PARK#LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON'S IMPRISONMENT@[]#SUFFRAGIST OUTRAGE ON OXFORD STREET#SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS SEIZED BY POLICE#SUFFRAGIST ATTACKS PRICELESS PAINTING
The 19th Amendment to the American Constitution, which enfranchised women, was passed in 1920. The first state to give women the vote was Kansas, in 1867#The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903. Members soon became known as suffragettes - a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper#Winston Churchill once voted in parliament against granting the vote to women. He objected to their violent tactics#Mrs Pankhurst had a bodyguard of women led by a certain Mrs Garrud, who was skilled in the art of ju-jitsu#The colours of the WSPU were purple white and green: purple for justice, white for purity, green for hope#One of Mrs Pankhurst's earliest memories, she wrote, was taking part in a bazaar with her mother to raise money for the newly emancipated Negro slaves in America#By the time the vote was won in 1918, over a thousand women had been subjected to imprisonment, force-feeding, solitary confinement and hard labour#Mrs Pankhurst was in no doubt that flouting the law was the best way to change it: "The argument of the broken pane of glass is one of the most valuable arguments in modern politics."#Mrs Pankhurst was imprisoned many times, six times in the course of 1913 alone. On each occasion she went on hunger strike, but the authorities never dared to force-feed her#"If civilisation is to advance at all in the future," said Mrs Pankhurst, "It must be through the help of women, women freed of their political shackles, women with full power to work their will in society."
