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When The Suffragettes’ rental car toronto indefatigable quest to grant women the vote in the early 20th century came to fruition, history was made. Through hunger strikes, peaceful and non-peaceful protests, force feeding and lobbying, woman in the U.K were finally allowed rental car toronto to participate in democracy.
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Streep’s character Pankhurst was a major player in the movement, founding the Women's Franchise League, which fought to allow married women to vote in local elections. In 1903, she help found the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organisation that gained much notoriety for its activities and the first to be called 'suffragettes'
But her political activism saw her get arrested rental car toronto on numerous occasions. She went on hunger strike, resulting in violent force-feeding. Due to this, the 'Cat and Mouse Act' – which meant Suffragettes who were undertaking hunger strikes at the time would now be released from prison as soon as they became ill - was passed.
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