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Emily Davison
Is there a difference between a suffragist and a suffragette?
Learn how Constance Lytton became Jane Wharton for her struggle for women's right to vote in Britain
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Union Jack flag of Great Britain, united kingdom
What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?
Women casting their vote in New York City, c. 1920s. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage."
Voting in the U.S.A.
London Big Ben from Trafalgar Square traffic in UK
11 Lesser-Known, Mostly Contemporary Paintings You Should Hunt Down the Next Time You’re in London
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot--from a daguerreotype 1856
Celebrating Elizabeth Cady Stanton at 200
A young black girl voting on election day
Pro and Con: Lowering the Voting Age in the United States
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Computer mapping, woman at early 1990s computer
Timeline of the 1990s
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Flags That Look Alike
Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.
Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?
Ethel Rosenberg arrested in August 1950. Photograph dated Aug. 8, 1950. American civilians executed for espionage. Spies, communists, Julius Rosenberg
Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game
US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah in November 2004. Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq War.
Timeline of the 2000s
Candles Burning On Table In Church
What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?
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6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

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Also Known As Emily Wilding Davison
Born October 11, 1872 • London • England
Died June 8, 1913 (aged 40) • London • England

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May Sinclair
May Sinclair
British writer and suffragist
Catherine Helen Spence
Catherine Helen Spence
Australian author
Jovita Idár
Jovita Idár
Mexican American journalist, teacher, and activist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American abolitionist and educator
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Emmeline Pankhurst
British suffragist
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
American social activist
Kate Sheppard, 1905.
Kate Sheppard
New Zealand activist
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst
British suffragist
E.P. Thompson
British historian
Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands
Northern Irish activist
Harry Hay
Harry Hay
American activist
Hertha Marks Ayrton.
Hertha Marks Ayrton
British physicist
Constance Markievicz
Anglo-Irish countess and political activist
Dame Margery Corbett Ashby
British women’s rights pioneer
Betty Williams
Northern Irish activist
Helen Blackburn
British suffragist
Abby Hadassah Smith
American suffragist
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
American clergyman
David Dellinger
American peace activist
Julia Evelina Smith
American suffragist