Emmeline Pankhurst

Suffragette leader and women's rights activist

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British suffragette and women's rights activist. She was a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement in the UK, and her daughter Christabel Pankhurst was also a prominent figure. Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858 in Manchester, England, and died in 1928. She was known for her radical tactics, including hunger strikes and property damage, to draw attention to the cause of women's suffr...