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Clipping : "Suffragettes Fight Policemen All Night / Send Augustine Birrell to bed badly crippled and beaten, smash many windows." [November 23, 1910]
Account of rioting by suffragists in England, where women stormed the home of Prime Minister Asquith, smashed windows in the homes of members of Parliament, and attacked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell. 156 women were reportedly…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Get 4 Months Each in Jail / Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Tukes and Mrs. Marshall Sentenced for Stone Throwing." [March 2, 1912]
News article details the sentencing of Emmeline Pankhurst, Mabel Tuke, and Kitty Marshall for smashing two of the windows of the Prime Minister's residence. While Scotland Yard was preparing for a suffrage demonstration scheduled for the following…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Invade New York." [October 18, 1909]
Photograph with caption:
Mrs. Sophia M. Loebinger, One of the Most Active Suffragettes of the Metropolis, Holding an Impromptu Meeting in Wall Street, Where She Was Received with Cat Calls and Showered by Ticker Tape by the Brokers"
Sophia…
Mrs. Sophia M. Loebinger, One of the Most Active Suffragettes of the Metropolis, Holding an Impromptu Meeting in Wall Street, Where She Was Received with Cat Calls and Showered by Ticker Tape by the Brokers"
Sophia…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Mob Premier Asquith / Hundred women arrested during riot following assault on prime minister." [November 23, 1910]
Account of attack on the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith by suffragists following a session in the House of Commons where he made a campaign promise to postpone discussion of a suffrage bill until the next parliament. Rioting and violence continued…
Clipping : "Suffragettes Sentenced to 5-Year Term: penal servitude for woman who threw hatchet at premier Asquith." [August 8, 1912]
Article about suffragists Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans, sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Lizzie Baker was also charged and sentenced to seven months imprisonment. Mabel Capper, was discharged for lack of evidence.
Leigh was convicted for…
Leigh was convicted for…
Clipping : "Suffragettes' Big Gathering Proves Fiasco / 50 women are arrested while attempting meeting in Parliament Square." [March 5, 1912]
News article about a suffrage demonstration held in London only a few days after 142 women were arrested for smashing shop windows in London's West End. The article discusses the demonstration and the arrest of 50 women, and also the separate raids…
Clipping : "Suffragists Disperse / Only a Rear-Guard Left in Washington." The Washington Post. [December 6, 1913]
News article about the conclusion of the 45th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and those members left in Washington, D.C. to continue the work toward a federal consititutional amendment.
Clipping : "Suffragists Open to Publishing Concern." [1913]
Brief article summarizing some of the issues addressed during the 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association convention, including the creation of a suffrage publishing house, moving the headquarters from New York to Washington, D.C., and the…
Clipping : "Suffs Battle with Police; Burn Speech / Women are badly battered in clash with officers, soldiers and civilians, in fight near Metropolitan Opera House." March 5, 1919
Article about demonstration by the National Woman's Party outside of the New York Metropolitan Opera House where President Woodrow Wilson was speaking. Suffragists were attacked by police, soldiers, and onlookers; six women were arrested and later…