Suffragettes
What are the colors of the Suffragette movement?
Purple, white and green.
When and where does the movie take place?
London, 1912
When did women have the right to vote (on equal terms to men) ?
1928
What is her role in WSPU ?
She is one of the founders
Deeds not words
What happened in 1925?
Women had rights over their children.
How did the Suffragettes resist in prison?
They were doing hunger strikes.
What is the Cat and Mouse Act?
It allows hunger strikers to be released when they became ill, and then rearrested when they were better.
What militant actions did the suffragettes do? (2 examples)
smashing windows, hunger strikes, targeting art works and cutting telegraph wires.