Women's Social and Political Union founded
1903
Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters founded the WSPU in Manchester under the motto Deeds, Not Words. The suffragettes would chain themselves to railings, break shop windows, and go on hunger strikes, dragging Britain toward granting women the vote. The word suffragette was meant as a slur; they took it as a banner.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.