Sentence examples for suffrage campaign from inspiring English sources

This was a time of great ferment for the suffrage campaign.

These were the early days of the second-wave feminist movement in Britain (the first wave was the suffrage campaign).

She honestly, if wrongly, saw the suffragettes (the "physical forcers" of the suffrage campaign) as terrorists, Fenians in skirts.

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, she and Christabel called off the suffrage campaign, and the government released all suffragist prisoners.

Eighty-something Clementina Beba Gil, above, worked on the women's suffrage campaign and will happily tell stories from the time period.

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

It also made her one of the chief architects of the women's liberation movement of the late 1960's and afterward, a sweeping social upheaval that harked back to the suffrage campaigns of the turn of the century and would be called feminism's second wave.

She was unsuccessful, but in November 1923 the Gorton ward elected her to Manchester City Council; Hannah Mitchell, her co-worker in prewar suffrage campaigns, was a fellow councillor.

She's the missing link in a chain of events that begins with the woman-suffrage campaigns of the nineteen-tens and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later.

The ASL also contributed to the women's suffrage movement and the campaign to legalize the income tax, other amendments passed in this era.

Lytton's dedication was such that she once carved a large "V" for "votes" into her own breast, and she continued to campaign for the suffrage cause until her death in 1923.