| There were suffragists and socialists, a trade union organizer, and a London city councillor in her heritage. |
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| These new suffragists took to the streets, organizing mass parades, automobile caravans, and soapbox speaking. |
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| Our struggle, like those of suffragists, abolitionists, and human rights activists will continue until we obtain our goal. |
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| Republicans led the fight for women's rights, and most suffragists were Republicans. |
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| The difficulties facing suffragists who wished to boycott the census will be outlined and the extent of the eventual protest will be assessed. |
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| Roblin had challenged the women of Manitoba but McClung and her fellow suffragists, including the journalist Cora Hind, were up to the challenge. |
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| It took another 55 years or so for the suffragists to push their right to vote over the finish line. |
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| The suffragists claimed that quite the opposite was true and that militancy had hindered rather than helped women win the vote. |
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| Mahatma Ghandi made effective use of political fasts, as did the British suffragists, who brought hunger strikes to the American suffrage movement. |
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| British suffragists and suffragettes discovered that renewed though it was, the Liberal Party that returned to office in 1906 in no sense had votes for women on the agenda. |
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| Many suffragists were imprisoned for their picketing of the White House. |
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| Many suffragists decamped overnight to support the war effort, with leaders such as Mrs Pankhurst taking the pragmatic view that women's war work would earn them the vote. |
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| In Ireland early suffragists were largely Protestant, the leadership coming from upper middle-class women who were active in other forms of public work. |
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| Some prominent 19 th-century suffragists advocated adopting educational or property qualifications for voting that would disqualify most black women. |
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| Many suffragists also saw obtaining the vote as a means of ensuring that prohibition laws were passed. |
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| Much like the suffragists in America, it took the first wave of Canadian feminism, led by Nellie McClung, to challenge the law, mobilize people and push the envelope to make social change happen. |
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| The suffragettes, or female suffragists, of this era were unprecedentedly organized, vocal, and at times, disruptive in their efforts to protest the inequality that women faced. |
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| Census returns and other sources will be utilised to analyse the response of the authorities to the actions of suffragists, while the attitude of the wider public will be explored. |
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| It was followed in 1850 by the first national convention of the women's movement, held in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and a group of prominent Eastern suffragists. |
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| Like the Americans, British suffragists, led by the National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies, had initially approached their struggle politely, with ladylike lobbying. |
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| The NWP often found itself at odds with other suffragists. |
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| The Manitoba suffragists did not follow the militant example of the British suffragists, whose protests had led to the imprisonment of their leaders. |
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| The women's suffrage campaign was a movement with tensions: some suffragists of English ancestry were angered by the fact that they did not have the vote while men from Eastern Europe who had become citizens did. |
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| Many suffragists at the time, and most historians since, have argued that the actions of the militant suffragettes damaged their cause. |
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| The Prime Minister became a target for militant suffragists as they abandoned hope of achieving the vote through peaceful means. |
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| This was the goal of the suffragists in the United States and the suffragettes in Great Britain. |
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