Word: pankhursts
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...Emmeline Pankhurst, president of the Women's Social and Political Union of England, spoke on "Woman Suffrage" in Brattle Hall yesterday afternoon. The lecture was given under the auspices of the Harvard Men's League for Woman Suffrage...
...opening her address, Mrs. Pankhurst briefly outlined the history of the woman suffrage movement. From the French Revolution and the Reform Act of 1832 in England, women learned by experience that although they helped men to win political freedom, they were excluded their proper privileges on account of their sex after that freedom was won. It was this open injustice which led women to take up the fight for their political rights. Hence, at the opening of this century, the first woman's political organization in England was formed to organize the suffrage movement and to take some definite action...
...often condemned, yet these have been the only means of securing their rights left open to them. Although obliged at times to use forcible methods, it is a significant fact that no human being has ever been injured in their agitations except possibly the suffragettes themselves. In closing, Mrs. Pankhurst added that equal suffrage would in the end be of more benefit to men than to women and would mark a great advance in human progress...
...Pankhurst is one of the great leaders of the woman suffrage movement in England and it has been largely through her efforts and influence that this party has gained its recent concessions from the Prime Minister of England. Before becoming interested in this movement, she was prominent in political and social service work in Manchester, England...
Lecture on "Woman Suffrage" by Mrs. E. Pankhurst in Brattle Hall...