suffragist
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He hangs out with the suffragist leader Emmeline Pankhurst; hobnobs with King Edward VII; writes screenplays for Hollywood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But the suffragist Swede who pioneered netball in England was anything but quiet.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
That’s when theatrical producer Rachel Sussman approached her with the book “Jailed for Freedom,” written by suffragist and legal rights advocate Doris Stevens and published in 1920.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
Consider the Haitian Revolution, American abolitionist movement, and suffragist campaigns: history shows that morally expansive recognition of rights, even to beings considered “property,” often aligns with broader human liberation.
From Salon ● May 17, 2025
Paul and Lucy Burns, a key suffragist who had worked alongside Paul, encouraged women to wear white dresses adorned with colorful sashes.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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