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100 Years of Women's Suffrage




When Evelyn Manesta, one of the Manchester suffragettes refused to pose for a picture, a guard was brought in to restrain her in front of the camera.
But when the photograph of Evelyn Manesta appeared, the arm had been removed.
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Whether one agrees or disagrees
with their militant methods,
it is impossible to justify the brutal
attitude on the part of the angry crowd
One of the most potent weapons used by the suffragettes in prison was the hunger strike. In many cases the prison authorities force fed the women.
The prisoner was restrained and a tube forced down their throat. Once the woman had stopped gagging, food was poured down a funnel. One suffragette, Kitty Marion, was force fed at least 200 times.

�Dominic Casciani / BBC 10.03.03
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Women won the right to vote in the US in 1920, in the UK in 1928. In New Zealand, in 1893.
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Ω{The part I always get stuck on is what they were after. Same with the civil rights movement. They wanted to vote. As near as I can figure it, the point isn't whether or not whoever it was they were asking was criminally insane, the proof of that is too clearly present. It's that there was and is no other way to make this whole thing better. So the demand for voting privileges becomes, out of necessity, a negotiation with and a legitimizing of a criminal enterprise.
Take the actions of these 'authorities', the loose groups whose 'permission' to vote had to be begged for, demanded, and bought with great personal sacrifice, and reduce them to the actions of one individual man, and he would himself be stripped of his voting privilege and locked away for life.}