Women's Sunday
Women's Sunday (German: Sunday of the women ) was a star march of English suffragettes in London on June 21, 1908 with a subsequent rally. It was organized by Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to get the Liberal government under Herbert Henry Asquith to support women's suffrage. The march is considered to be the largest demonstration in the UK at that time, with up to half a million women and men from across the country. 30,000 women marched to Hyde Park in seven demonstrations , carrying 700 banners. One of them read: “Not chivalry but justice” (German: “No chivalry, but justice”).
The demonstration trains
Preparations
The major event was organized by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Treasurer of the WSPU, and for the first time showed the WSPU colors purple, white and green in public. Women were asked to wear white dresses, and in the days leading up to the event, the shops sold dresses for participants in the window displays. The Daily Chronicle noted, "White frocks will be prominent in the windows with a plentiful supply of dress accessories in violet and green." (German: "White dresses will stand out in the shop windows, with an abundant supply of accessories in purple and green.") In the two days before the event, over 10,000 scarves in these colors were sold, each for two shillings and eleven pennies. The men wore ties in these colors.
Seven demonstration trains
Folders greeted participants at the stations as they arrived on special trains from across the UK. About 30,000 women marched into Hyde Park in seven marches, each led by a Chief Marshal , followed by the Group Marshals , Captains and Banner Marshals . Emmeline Pankhurst, dressed in purple and accompanied by Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy, led a train from Euston Road . From Paddington , Annie Kenney led the women from Wales, the Midlands and the West of England. Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence led a procession from the Victoria Embankment . 5,000 marched out of Kensington , along with five brass bands.
Participants included Sylvia Pankhurst , Maud Pember Reeves, Mary Gawthorpe , Ethel Snowden , Keir Hardie , Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, George Bernard Shaw , HG Wells , Thomas Hardy and Israel Zangwill .
Newspaper echo
The Evening Standard said:
“From first to last it was a great meeting, daringly conceived, splendidly stage-managed, and successfully carried out. Hyde Park has probably never seen a greater crowd of people. "
(German: "From the beginning to the end it was a great meeting, daring, beautifully staged and successfully carried out. Hyde Park has probably never seen a larger gathering of people.")
See also
- Woman Suffrage Procession (Washington, DC, 1913)
Web links
literature
- Diane Atkinson: Rise Up Women !: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes . London, Bloomsbury 2018
- Sandra Stanley Holten: Feminism and Democracy: Women's Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900-1918 . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2003
- Lisa Tickner: The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14 . Chicago, University of Chicago Press 1988
- "Women's Sunday" . Votes for women . 18 June 1908, pp. 243-246.
- "Women's Sunday: Hyde Park Rally, 21st June 1908" , University of Kent.
- "Suffragette timeline: the long march to votes for women" , The Daily Telegraph .
- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence: My Part in a Changing World . London, Victor Gollanz 1938
- June Purvis: The prison experiences of the suffragettes in Edwardian Britain In: Women's History Review, 1995, Volume 4, pp. 103-133.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holten, 2003, p. 46
- ↑ Holten, 2003, p. 46; The Times , June 22, 1908, p. 9.
- ^ Atkinson, 2018, pp. 1748, 1832
- ^ Atkinson, 2018, p. 1832
- ↑ Tickner, 1988, p. 93
- ↑ Tickner, 1988, p. 94
- ↑ Tickner, 1988, p. 93
- ↑ Tickner, 1988, p. 94
- ↑ Tickner, 1988, p. 94
- ↑ Bloom, Christina. "Suffragettes in Hyde Park on Women's Sunday; 1908" , Museum of London.
- ^ Atkinson, 2018, p. 1832