Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

A street commemorating Emmeline Pankhurst has existed in Zaragoza since 1989 (source, p.31).

STUDENT WORK:

These are some of the pamphlets, leaflets and letters published by the suffragettes:

NO WOMEN NO CLOTHES!.pdf
Equal work, equal rights.pdf
Female empowerment in politics.pdf

Letter to Parliament-Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)- militant wing of the British woman suffrage movement founded in Manchester in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst.

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Votes for Women.pdf

Many newspapers at the time reported the news that women over 30 had been granted the right to vote (21st November 1918). Most of them were supportive of the move:

Newspaper-suffragettes 1.pdf
Newspaper-suffragettes 2.pdf

Some of them, however, bitterly resented the bill passed by Parliament:

newspaper-against suffragettes.jpeg

Emmeline Pankhurst quotes (source):

  • “Deeds not words.”

  • “Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights.”

  • “I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”

  • “We have to free half of the human race, the women so that they can help to free the other half.”

  • “We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.”

  • “Trust in God – she will provide.”

Unveiling of her statue in Manchester (December 2018)

Trailer for Suffragette (2015)