Suffragettes - militant activities
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- Suffragettes
- Militant activities
- Manchester Free Trade Hall -1905
- First militant activity from the WSPU
- Their questions were ignored in a speech from a Liberal Party leading member
- Christabel and Annie Kennedy were flung out of the building and attempted to address the corwd
- Arrested for obstruction and spitting at a police officer
- Black Friday - 1908
- Asquith (PM) failed to mention Women's suffrage in Parliament
- Emmeline led 300 women to the HoC to violently protest
- Police were involved - controversy over how they dealt with the protests
- Ada Wright - injured. Published in newspapers
- Hunger striking - 1909
- Began in 1909 in prisons
- Resulted in the force feeding of Suffragettes imprisoned
- Embarrassed the government
- Resulted in the 'Cat and Mouse' Act - 1912
- Meant that if a suffragette was too weak from hunger striking they could go home to 'mend' but would return to prison afterwards
- Women's Sunday - 1910
- Hyde Park - VFW Demonstrations
- 300,000 people attended
- Emily Davison's Death - 1913
- Epson Derby - lots of people
- Trampled by the King's horse
- Theories: Suicide, Recklessness, Accident
- Large WSPU funeral - sympathetic publicity (martyr?)
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