Suffragettes

The Suffragette Movement

In this period of time there was a group of women that were fighting for women's rights in Britain. They were called the Suffragettes and they worked underground to try and push women's rights by doing protests, some silent and some were physical.

Their main group colours were: Purple - Dignity; White - Purity and Green - Hope. They sold many merchandise with these colours on to help to spread the word.

Emily Davison

Emily Davison was one of the most famous suffragettes because she died fighting for what she wanted. How she died was that she had planned to attach a suffragette banner to one of the winning horses The Kings horse whilke it was running in the Epsom Derby but when she actually came to doing it she stepped out too far onto the track and the horse smashed into her killing her almost instantly. This certainly caused a massive fuss in public outrage and the suffragettes became evermore famous.