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Quick Facts. Significance: Prominent British suffrage activist who influenced adoption of militant tactics by the American suffrage movement. Place of Birth: Manchester, England. Date of Birth: July 14 or 15, 1858. Place of Death: London, England. Date of Death: June 14, 1928. Place of Burial: London, England. Cemetery Name: Brompton Cemetery.
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) was a tireless political activist, who led the Women’s Social and Political Union, the militant faction of the movement for women’s suffrage.
Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858–1928) Matriarch of radical feminism in Britain who, along with her daughter Christabel, founded the Women's Social and Political Union, the organization which represented the most militant wing of the British women's suffrage movement.
