Sentence examples for suffrage activity from inspiring English sources

The advent of war curtailed most suffrage activity; the NUWSS became divided between pro-war and pro-peace factions and ultimately split, the peacemongers (including Wilkinson's Manchester branch) eventually aligning themselves with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WIL).

With little suffrage activity to organise, Wilkinson looked for another job, and in July 1915 was appointed as a national organiser for the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees (AUCE), with particular responsibility for the recruitment of women into the union.

From that point on she continued her suffrage activities, wrote Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers (1911), and managed her husband's newspaper (the Racine Times) and printing business from his death in 1893 until 1900.

She was arrested for speaking at Broadway and 87th Street in 1911, the same year she started a restaurant and clubhouse for suffrage activities in a row house at 120 West 81st Street.

They persuaded the WSPU to halt all militant suffrage activities until fighting on the European mainland ended.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century the campaign for women's suffrage dominated feminist activity in the west.

After World War I and the successful conclusion of the suffrage campaign, Blatch remained active in women's rights and socialist activities.

Stanton and Anthony's focus, however, soon shifted to female suffrage and women's rights, activities which inexorably brought them into acquaintance with Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary; for a short time Phoebe Cary served as editor of Anthony's newspaper, Revolution.

Her mother was active in the suffrage movement.

Later on, Dreier was active in the woman suffrage movement.

Although she retired then from public activity, she contributed articles to the Woman's Journal, a suffrage periodical, and carried on a broad and varied program of study in the physical and social sciences and in other fields.