Emmeline PankhurstIn England, Alice Paul met Emmeline Pankhurst. Born in 1858, Mrs. Pankhurst was the leader of suffrage movements in Britain (Pankhurst Biography). Paul learned the tactics of radical civil disobedience from Pankhurst. The first of Paul's many imprisonments occurred in London.
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"Dear Mama, Mrs. Pankhurst is a genius, a born leader. Women by the hundreds will do anything Mrs. Pankhurst asks. She has asked me to join their march on the Parliament, and at last I've gotten up the courage to say I will go." -Alice Paul writing a letter to her mother (One Woman, One Vote)