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Henry Hunt (politician)"Orator" Hunt was the main speaker at St Peter's Field in Manchester on 16 August 1819, where around 60,000 people gathered to demand parliamentary reform at a time when most adult men, and all women, had no vote and industrial towns had no MPs. Yeomanry charged the crowd, killing at least 15…0i - 2
William LovettBorn 8 May 1800A cabinetmaker, Lovett drafted the People's Charter of 1838 for the London Working Men's Association after the 1832 Reform Act left most working men voteless. Its six points, votes for all men, secret ballot, no property qualification for MPs, payment of MPs, equal constituencies and annual…0i - 3
Kate SheppardBorn 10 Mar 1848Sheppard organised the petitions that made New Zealand, in 1893, the first self-governing country to give all adult women the vote in national elections. Working through the Women's Christian Temperance Union, she and her colleagues gathered nearly 32,000 signatures, about a quarter of the adult…0i - 4
Ida B. WellsBorn 16 Jul 1862Better known for exposing lynching, Wells also built Black women's voting power from the ground up. In 1913 she founded Chicago's Alpha Suffrage Club, which canvassed wards after Illinois gave women a partial vote and helped elect Oscar De Priest as the city's first Black alderman in 1915. That…0i - 5
Mary Church TerrellTerrell, one of the first Black American women to earn a college degree, founded the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 under the motto "Lifting as we climb" and argued at suffrage conventions that white suffragists must not trade away Black women to win Southern support. After 1920 she…0i - 6
Selina CooperCooper started work in a Lancashire cotton mill as a child and became one of the "radical suffragists" who rooted the women's vote in trade unions rather than drawing rooms. In 1901 she was among the mill workers who carried a petition signed by nearly 30,000 Lancashire textile women to…0i - 7
Sophia Duleep SinghA goddaughter of Queen Victoria and daughter of the last Sikh ruler of the Punjab, Duleep Singh used her title as a weapon. She sold suffrage newspapers outside her grace-and-favour home at Hampton Court, marched on Black Friday in 1910 and, as a leader of the Women's Tax Resistance League, refused…0i - 8
Clara CampoamorBorn 12 Feb 1888Elected to Spain's constituent assembly in 1931, before women could vote, Campoamor argued the case for women's suffrage against most of her own allies on the left, who feared women would vote as priests told them. Her speeches carried Article 36 of the Republic's constitution by 161 votes to 121.…0i - 9
Bertha LutzBorn 2 Aug 1894A zoologist at Rio de Janeiro's National Museum, Lutz founded the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women in 1922 and ran a patient lobbying campaign of petitions, press work and contacts with legislators rather than street protest. Brazil's 1932 electoral code gave women the vote, among…0i - 10
Ichikawa FusaeBorn 15 May 1893Ichikawa co-founded the Women's Suffrage League of Japan in 1924 and campaigned for two decades against laws that barred women not only from voting but from joining political parties or attending political meetings. Women voted in Japan for the first time in April 1946; Ichikawa herself was briefly…0i
