Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic (born 1857)

Emmeline Pankhurst

British suffragette (1858–1928)

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that…