Pankhurst, Emmeline Goulden (1858-1928), led the fight for women’s suffrage (voting rights) in Britain. With her husband, Richard M. Pankhurst, she helped form the Women’s Franchise League in 1889. In 1903, she helped organize the the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). The WSPU’s program differed from earlier suffragist efforts through its use of parades, hunger strikes, and the destruction of public property. The group used the slogan “Deeds Not Words.”
Pankhurst and her followers, including her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, called themselves suffragettes. During World War I (1914-1918), they turned to patriotic work. Women received equal voting privileges in the United Kingdom in 1928, the year of Mrs. Pankhurst’s death. She was born on July 14, 1858, in Manchester, England. She died on June 14, 1928.
See also Pankhurst, Christabel .
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