The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920. Suffragettes were arrested, imprisoned, and otherwise targeted as they fought for voting rights. Black women and ...

These images help bring their decades-long movement ... putting the question of women’s suffrage to its (all-male) electorate. Supporters of the cause organized a “suffrage day” game ...

Imprisoned suffragettes waving through the barred windows of Holloway Prison, London The women were then brutally force-fed by guards with rubber tubes. Image source, Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

The suffragette’s name was Emily Davison ... advantage of those attitudes to capture the public’s attention with images of the brutality they faced. Such tactics might have remained largely ...

The photos below show the extraordinary efforts ... While Black, Indigenous, and immigrant women also fought for women's suffrage, their faces are rarely seen in historical imagery celebrating ...

“Suffrage didn’t appear out of thin air ... rather than risk throwing some in a more celebratory light than others. Finding photos of women of color taking part in protests was also a challenge.

Labour's Stella Creasy wore a "daughter of Pankhurst" jumper in tribute to suffragette leader Emmeline. It was to mark the centenary of the law that gave women the right to vote for the first time ...

The suffragettes left extensive archives of images, many taken by Christina Broom, the UK’s first woman press photographer. Broom’s images are doubly interesting because the gaze of both ...

Lange, author of “Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.” Suffragist artists fought back on a black-and-white battlefield, developing imagery to subvert negative ...

King George V's horse hit suffragette Emily Davison during the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913 The campaigner for women's rights was thought to have been trying to pin a suffragette ribbon on the King ...