Black Friday
On Friday 18th November 1910 a protest by the Women's Suffragettes Movement took place in response to Prime Minister Asquiths rejection to the 2nd reading of the proposed vote for women in the house of commons. Out of around 300 women who joined the protest reports from the day suggest as many as 200 women were brutally assaulted by the police, more than 150 of these women were arrested many of them violently. Two women died as a direct result of their treatment. A third who died on Christmas Day was Mary Clarke, Emmeline Pankhursts sister. Many newspapers carried reports and photographs of the arrests and police assaults, the government attempted to ban the photographs. The events of day were so gruelsome the Suffragettes named it Black Friday. It wasn't until 1918 that women finally became eligible to vote in a general election.
Emmeline Goulden was born 1858 in Moss Side. As a young girl she moved to the Seedley area of Pendleton. She married Richard Pankhurst at St Lukes church, Weaste in 1879.
© Susan Tydd
On Friday 18th November 1910 a protest by the Women's Suffragettes Movement took place in response to Prime Minister Asquiths rejection to the 2nd reading of the proposed vote for women in the house of commons. Out of around 300 women who joined the protest reports from the day suggest as many as 200 women were brutally assaulted by the police, more than 150 of these women were arrested many of them violently. Two women died as a direct result of their treatment. A third who died on Christmas Day was Mary Clarke, Emmeline Pankhursts sister. Many newspapers carried reports and photographs of the arrests and police assaults, the government attempted to ban the photographs. The events of day were so gruelsome the Suffragettes named it Black Friday. It wasn't until 1918 that women finally became eligible to vote in a general election.
Emmeline Goulden was born 1858 in Moss Side. As a young girl she moved to the Seedley area of Pendleton. She married Richard Pankhurst at St Lukes church, Weaste in 1879.
© Susan Tydd