The suffragettes donned red lipstick as a feminist statement at a time when only tarts and actresses wore the old war paint. |
Hunger strikers no longer feel obliged to duplicate the gravitas of such famous trailblazers as the suffragettes and Gandhi. |
The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes. |
Abolitionists, freethinkers, and suffragettes found spiritual innovation compatible with their quest for social reform. |
In prison she went on hunger strikes, a tactic favoured by many of the suffragettes, as a hunger strike meant release from jail. |
Her house was a congregation for many of her activist friends, including the famous suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. |