Institution
Women's Social and Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union was a militant British organisation campaigning for women's right to vote, founded in Manchester in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters. Its members, called suffragettes by the press, took the motto 'Deeds, not words': they heckled ministers, smashed windows and set fires, and many went on hunger strike in prison and were force-fed. It suspended its campaign at the outbreak of the First World War, and in 1917 it became the Women's Party.
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