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There were Suffragists and Suffragettes. Suffragists did non-violent protests , sent letters and held up banners but Suffragettes were violent, they threw bricks at buildings and burnt down churches and got arrested many times.

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Here are just a few (more wildly known women rights leaders)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B Anthony

Lucy Burns

Alice Paul

Inez Milholland

President Wilson (He eventually excepted the 19th amendment and it was added to the Constitution of the United States)

Lucretia Mott

much more...

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Mostly women . In the US some of the leaders of the movement were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Lucy Stone. Carrie Catt,and Alice Paul. There were other women's rights issues besides the right to vote that they fought for.

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Susan B. Anthony was a popular Suffragist who was tried for casting a vote in the Presidential election of 1872 before women had the right. was nor

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Emmeline Pankhurst founded The women's Social and Political Union and I believe it was her (might have been Emily Davison who died trying to stop the king's horse in Derby).

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they were called useless.

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