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Also Known As Emily Wilding Davison
Born October 11, 1872 • London • England
Died June 8, 1913 (aged 40) • London • England

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British women’s rights pioneer
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British writer and suffragist
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Catherine Helen Spence
Australian author
Jovita Idár
Jovita Idár
Mexican American journalist, teacher, and activist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American abolitionist and educator
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Emmeline Pankhurst
British suffragist
Mary Church Terrell
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
American social activist
Kate Sheppard, 1905.
Kate Sheppard
New Zealand activist
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst
British suffragist
E.P. Thompson
British historian
Bobby Sands
Bobby Sands
Northern Irish activist
Harry Hay
Harry Hay
American activist
Hertha Marks Ayrton.
Hertha Marks Ayrton
British physicist
Constance Markievicz
Anglo-Irish countess and political activist
Betty Williams
Northern Irish activist
Helen Blackburn
British suffragist
David Dellinger
American peace activist
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
American clergyman
Emily Murphy
Canadian lawyer and writer
Julia Evelina Smith
American suffragist