BLACK FRIDAY November 1910
Arlette San Miguel 1L
Suffragettes movement
- English movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst(earlier group:Women's social and political union
- Main goal: women right to vote
- Methods: peaceful protest,hunger strikes then vandalism and suicide
- Later groups: Women's freedom league 1907/Workers socialist federation 1914
Difference between Suffragists
suffragists used peaceful campaigns and suffragettes believed in action like breaking the law
Suffragettes movement
Black friday 18/11/1910
- Protest against refusal of bill for women vote
- 300 suffragettes went to the House of commons to confront Prime minister
- Many violence, women assaulted by the police for hours
- Daily Mirror cover: Ada Wright
- Importance for the movement: new methods
Black friday
Related figure
co-founder of the movement
first martyr of the cause
Mary Jane Clarke (1862-1910)
Personnality