Emmeline Pankhurst Tapestries
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Description: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928) was a British politician and pioneer of the suffragette movement, which campaigned for women's voting rights in the UK. In 1889, she founded the Women's Franchise League, and in 1903, the Women's Social and Political Union, a more radical organization that became widely known for its activities and whose members were the first to call themselves "suffragettes". Like many suffragists, Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested on numerous occasions, and went on a hunger strike that involved violent forced force-feeding. She died on June 14, 1928, shortly after women won the right to vote.
