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That very year, The Crimson detailed the visit of Emmeline Pankhurst, Britain’s foremost militant suffragette, for a lecture series with other suffragists and Ivy League professors. Three years later, Harvard welcomed Jane Addams of Hull House; in 1918, Congress passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards enfranchisement. While ginger ale, moonlit walks, and secret sleepovers might have been fulfilling enough for the 1905 woman, The Club risked falling victim to its own conceit...
...Jane Fonda b) Betty Friedan c) Emmeline Pankhurst d) Estee Lauder...
...white townships, Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus just as Gandhi had on the South African train, the unknown rebel blocking the line of tanks rumbling toward Tiananmen Square, Lech Walesa leading his fellow Polish workers out on strike, the British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst launching hunger strikes, American students protesting the Vietnam War by burning their draft cards, and gays and lesbians at Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn resisting a police raid. In the end, they changed the century as much as the men who commanded armies...
...PATRIA ET GLORIA--"For country and glory"--their motto reads in granite, barely legible. The infantrymen rise 15 ft. above the ground, an altitude that is microcosmic from the distance of the Sea of Tranquility. SIC TRANSIT GLORIA? As much can be said of the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in London, her Edwardian gown antique against the constantly renewed moon, which has waned and waxed over her and other great men and women. It has lasted; they have gone the way of all flesh. Emmeline...
...sacrifice? Only humankind can grasp the need for heroism amid the persistence of warfare simply by noticing that virtually across the street from the bronze soldiers, who fought a war spawned in the Balkans, is Yugoslavia's mission to the U.N. And only we can repent of forgetting that Pankhurst and her matronly, overlaced suffragists risked death for the right of women to vote. It is a blood debt...