1906 WSPU march

Women's suffrage protest in London, England June 2018 August 2026 1906 WSPU march first-wave feminism House of Commons, England 51 29 59.6 N 0 07 28.8 W region:GB_type:landmark inline, title 1906 02 19 y Fight for women's suffrage Demonstrations, marches, hectoring politicians Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Liberal government, 1905–1915 Emmeline Pankhurst (WSPU) Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman 300–400 women march to the House of Commons Followed by: Mud March(organized by the NUWSS) The 1906 WSPU march on 19 February 1906 was the first march held in London to demand the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom. Organized by Sylvia Pankhurst and Annie Kenney of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the event saw around 300–400 women march through central London to the House of Commons. It was held to coincide with the King's Speech and the opening of Parliament.Purvis 2002 79 Two hundred women from Bow, Bromley, Canning Town and Poplar in the East End marched to Caxton Hall, near the Commons, from St James's Park tube station.Kelly 2004 333 There, Emmeline Pankhurst heard there was no mention of votes for women in the King's Speech and led the women on another march to the Commons Strangers' Entrance. Over the following two hours, the women were allowed to enter in groups of 20 to lobby their MPs.Kelly 2004 334; Van Wingerden 1999 75. The Daily Mirror reported the event on page 5: "Voteless Women. 3,000 [sic] Demonstrators March Behind a Red Banner. Smiling but Earnest."Kelly 2004 334 Emmeline Pankhurst saw the march as the beginning of a militant women's suffrage movement.Van Wingerden 1999 75 The women "were awake at last", she wrote. "They were prepared to do something that women had never done before—fight for themselves. Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established."Pankhurst 1914 38 References Works cited Kelly Katherine E. Seeing through Spectacles: The Woman Suffrage Movement and London Newspapers, 1906–13 European Journal of Women's Studies 2004 11 3 327–353 10.1177/1350506804044466 143436264 Pankhurst Emmeline Emmeline Pankhurst My Own Story https://archive.org/details/myownstory00pankuoft 1914 Eveleigh Nash London Purvis June June Purvis Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography 2002 Routledge London and New York Van Wingerden Sophia A. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1866–1928 1999 Palgrave Macmillan New York collapsed Category:1906 in London Category:1906 in women's history Category:February 1906 in the United Kingdom Category:First-wave feminism in the United Kingdom Category:Protest marches in London Category:Protests in London Category:Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom Category:Women's marches Category:Emmeline Pankhurst Category:1906 protests