WOMEN’S

FRANCHISE LEAGUE:

Emmeline Pankhurst

She is best remembered for organizing

the UK suffragette movement and
helping women win the right to vote. She
was widely criticized for her militant
tactics, and historians disagree about
their effectiveness, but her work is
recognized as a crucial element in
achieving women's suffrage in the United
Kingdom.

"We suffragettes have the

greatest mission the world
has ever known: liberate
half the human race and,
through that freedom, save
the rest."
Emmeline Pankhurst

Before the founding of

the Women's Franchise
League, Emmeline and
her sister participated in a
feminist demonstration
during the 1868 general
In 1889, Emmeline and
elections and in 1872
Richard Pankhurst created
attended the first of many
the Women's Franchise
suffrage meetings.
League and dedicated it
primarily to obtaining that
voting right for women at
the local level.

In 1889, Emmeline Pankhurst

(1858-1928) and her husband
Richard Pankhurst (1825-1898), an
attorney, founded the Women’s
Franchise League (WFL). This
organization was one of the first
middle-class organizations to
promote women’s suffrage in
nineteenth-century Britain.

Alejandra Gonzalez, Juan Gonzalez