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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looks incomprehensible today, and it provoked, among all classes and conditions of women, furious and passionate protests. The response of the police, the courts and sometimes the crowds of suffragist opponents still makes shocking reading. Women were battered in demonstrations and, on hunger strikes, brutally force-fed in prison. When these measures risked taking lives, the infamous Cat & Mouse Act was passed so that a dangerously weakened hunger striker would be released and then rearrested when strong enough to continue her sentence. Under its terms, Mrs. Pankhurst, age 54 in 1912, went to prison 12 times that year. No wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Agitator EMMELINE PANKHURST | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...W.S.P.U. adopted a French Revolutionary sense of crowd management, public spectacle and symbolic ceremony. They would greet one of their number on release from prison and draw her triumphantly in a flower-decked wagon through the streets, and they staged elaborate allegorical pageants and torchlight processions, with Mrs. Pankhurst proudly walking at their head (if she wasn't in jail). Her example was followed internationally: the U.S. suffragist Alice Paul, who had taken part in suffragist agitation when she was a student at the London School of Economics, imported Pankhurst militancy to the U.S., leading a march 5,000 strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Agitator EMMELINE PANKHURST | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...significance of the study, researchers say, is the surprising degree to which employment opportunities have improved the overall life chances of black inner-city residents, even those with prison records...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Richard B. Freeman | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

When Jackson negotiated the release of Lieut. Robert O. Goodman Jr. from a Syrian prison in 1983, The New York Times attributed it to "Syria's desires to further antagonize the Reagan Administration by going over its head with a gesture to the American people...

Author: By Jesse Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Always in the Spotlight, Jackson Does Politics His Own Way | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...another officer violently sodomized Louima with a broomstick in a station house bathroom. That other officer, Justin Volpe, pleaded guilty to the assault last month in the face of overwhelming evidence and the corroborating testimony of four fellow officers. Schwarz and Volpe, both white, could now face life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NYPD Blues: Torture Trial Yields a Conviction | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

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