Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that marks a ...

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A short account of suffragette Theresa Garnett attacking then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill with a horsewhip in 1909, written by Anny Cullum. Submitted by Steven. on February 21, 2017 The campaign ...

Art by Libby VanderPloeg, featured in She Votes: How US Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn, published by Chronicle Books 2020. After decades of struggle by American women — ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Interview with an ex-suffragette on her experiences after arrest.

Like so much of the official history we learn about the United States, the history of women’s suffrage has been whitewashed. A multitude of women of color who fought selflessly for equal rights have ...

British women won the right to vote 100 years ago after an intense struggle marked by a violent fringe campaign that shocked the country but helped to change the world. On February 6, 1918, the ...

Last week, “Suffs” came to town. The show, a Tony award-winning musical depicting the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States, was very well done. I laughed and cried and found myself ...

A policeman tries to seize a banner from a suffragette during Britain’s Black Friday on Nov. 18, 1910. The Daily Mirror Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — ...