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Delivered on November 13, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut. Pankhurst was a British suffragette doing a tour of the United States. The suffragettes' actions, and the British government's response, had become increasingly extreme in the preceding years.
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, who helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating: "she shaped an idea of women for our time, she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back.
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, who helped women win the right to vote. In 1999 Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating: "she shaped an idea of women for our time, she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back.