Volume 17 , Issue 28

Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! This Monday woke us up with distant thunder in the background, moving closer our way and dumping a good rain most of the morning and afternoon, off and on.



Suffragists - The word suffrage means the right to vote in elections. It does not have to do with suffering. In America, the individual states determine who may vote. However, the U.S. Constitution states in the 19th Amendment that women shall not be denied the vote based upon their sex. Suffragists fought hard to bring this constitutional amendment about. Back then, female suffragists were known as suffragettes.

Suffragettes - Suffragettes were members of women's organisation (right to vote) movements in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly "militants" in Great Britain such as members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).[1][2] Suffragist is a more general term for members of suffrage movement.

The term "suffragette" is particularly associated with activists in the British WSPU, led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, who were influenced by Russian methods of protest such as hunger strikes. Other tactics employed by members of the WSPU included chaining themselves to railings to provoke an arrest, pouring harsh chemicals into mailboxes, breaking windows at prestige buildings, and night-time arson at unoccupied buildings. Many suffragettes were imprisoned in Holloway Prison in London, and were force-fed after going on hunger strike.

This is an Elizabeth Cady Stanton quote, "Society, as organized today under the man power, is one grand rape of womanhood, on the highway, in our jails, prisons, asylums, in our homes, alike in the world of fashion and of work. Hence, discord, despair, violence, . . . until the mother of the race be made dictator in the social realm. To this end we need every power to lift her up, and teach mankind that in all God's universe there is nothing so holy and sacred was womanhood."

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