Dakota Datebook: Sylvia Pankhurst and the North Dakota's Votes for Women League Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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The first city in North Dakota to formally organize a Votes for Women League was Fargo, in early 1912.

It happened with the visit and lecture of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, a British artist, author, and suffragist, who was both daughter to and disciple of famous British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst.

Emmeline led militant British suffragists who demanded the right to vote. They disrupted political meetings, damaged property, were arrested, and while in jail, went on hunger strikes to resist being governed while being denied the vote.

In 1912, her daugher Sylvia was lecturing in the US to gain support for the right to vote for women.

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