Meanwhile, the Silent Sentinels continued their protests. More women were arrested, more went on hunger strikes and were force-fed, though there were no more incidents as dramatic as the Night of Terror.
Finally, in June , the U. On August 18, , after a down-to-the-wire fight in Nashville , Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment. Still, after more than a century, the Night of Terror stands as a potent reminder of female solidarity and resistance, and just how much some women were willing to sacrifice to win the right to vote. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you.
Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. And these six victories brought the movement back to life. It was around this time that Alice Paul entered the scene. She met Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, who were causing controversy throughout England with their militant tactics to secure the vote for women. She returned to the United States in and after completing a Ph. Anthony in —the suffrage movement was languishing, lacking focus and support under conservative suffrage organizations that were concentrating only on state suffrage.
Paul believed that the movement needed to focus on the passage of a federal suffrage amendment to the U. Capitol, White House, and Treasury Building. The NWP was organized to persuade women who lived in suffrage states to elect legislators who favored the federal amendment. In , the NWP also began a new tactic that proved to be extremely powerful in changing public sentiment: picketing the White House. For over two years, Alice Paul coordinated an ongoing demonstration in front of the White House gate.
Calmly he turns back, raises his arm and punches you, square in the face. More than women assembled to protest after missing out on the right to vote; were assaulted by the police.
But these were respectable women — nurses, teachers, mothers — who were campaigning for their right to vote. And this cruelty was just the start. As the campaign intensified, suffragettes endured imprisonment, hunger strikes and force-feeding. Many carried the scars, physical and mental, for the rest of their lives.
Some died. We all have an image of the suffragettes seared into our minds. But less is known about how horrifically these campaigners were treated and how much they sacrificed for the cause — losing dignity, jobs, marriages, children, even lives. This militancy was divisive. The suffragettes and their supporters argued that acts of violence kept the cause in the minds of politicians and the public.
But more moderate campaigners thought public opinion would turn: the suffragettes were accused of hindering the cause they believed in so strongly. Still, thousands clamoured to join them. But contrary to some of the glossier representations that abound today, not all of these women were white, affluent sorts who could afford to forgo jobs to campaign.
Although many of those able to dedicate time and money were well-off, the actions of non-white and working women were also key.
Not least that of the Asian women who organised and marched with the WSPU, but also the trade-union activists in the mill towns of the north and the socialist suffragettes of east London. Victoria Woodhull, one of the most colorful and vivid figures of the U.
As children, she and her sister Tennessee Claflin gave psychic readings and healing sessions in a traveling family show. In , with backing from railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, the sisters opened a stock brokerage firm. They used their Wall Street profits to bankroll a controversial newspaper, which supported such causes as legalized prostitution and free love. She was eventually acquitted of all charges, moved to England and married a wealthy banker.
Demonstration and arrest of suffragettes in London, Credit: Photo12 Getty Images. While the female suffrage movements in Britain and the United States had many commonalities, they also had significant differences.
More than 1, suffragettes were imprisoned between and ; when they engaged in hunger strikes to draw public attention to their cause, prison officials responded by force-feeding them. Alice Paul, American suffragist,
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