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title: "Women's Suffrage Movement UK"
year: 1903
country: "United Kingdom"
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slug: "wspu-suffrage"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1903-01-01"
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# Women's Suffrage Movement UK

> Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union, launching militant suffragism that forced democratic reform across the Anglophone world.

In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union in Manchester, launching a more aggressive campaign for voting rights in Britain. For the next 15 years, suffragettes used civil disobedience, property damage, and hunger strikes to demand the vote—tactics that divided the movement but kept women's suffrage impossible to ignore.

## Summary

The women's suffrage movement in Washington was part of the broader Women's suffrage movement in the United States. In the state of Washington, women gained and lost the right to vote repeatedly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

## Sources

- [Women's suffrage movement in Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage_movement_in_Washington) - Wikipedia

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