A combative and outspoken leader in the women's suffrage movement, Alice Paul broke away from the National American Woman Suffrage Association to form the more radical National Woman's Party.
A statue commemorating the life of the suffragist, Millicent Fawcett, has been unveiled opposite Parliament. She campaigned for women's right to vote during the early 20th Century and is seen as ...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/the-great-war-alice-paul-suffragist/ When the United States entered the Great War in 1917, all Americans were ...
In 1910 it was Mary Macarthur who led these women chainmakers on a 10-week strike against wages that were barely enough to avoid starvation. Her campaign led to a doubling of women’s pay and helped ...