Street demonstration,Vote for women Suffragettes, town square Haverfordwest Wales UK. Re-inactment of early 20th century women's suffrage movement.

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Suffragettes were members of militant women's organisations in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections, known as women's suffrage. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906 a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, from suffragist, in an attempt to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU.

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Size: 5760px × 3833px
Location: Haverfordwest Pembrokeshire Wales Uk
Photo credit: © Daniel Valla FRPS / Alamy / Afripics
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