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
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...
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.
Suffragist
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
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).
A group of women called Sufferagetes! they started protesting before the war started but had to stop and help in the war. when the war ended the men were pleased with the womens efforts and gave them the right to vote!
Georgina Symmonette, Mabel Halker, Mary Ingraham, etc.
Beacause the time periods and economical base they were in called for giving the women the right to vote.
The women of Greece were given the right to vote in 1952
Emancipation gave women the right to vote