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Annie Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 working-class suffragette
Suffragette

File:British suffragette.jpgSuffragette is a term originally coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for the more Political radicalism and militant members of the late-19th and early-20th century movement for women's suffrage Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Politica...
 who is credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
.

During a Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
 rally at the Free Trade Hall
Free Trade Hall

The Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, was for many years a focal point for public debate and cultural activity in the city. Built in 1853–56 to the designs of Edward Walters, near the site of the 1819 Peterloo massacre, on what is today Peter Street , it has historically been seen as a symbol of free trade and the wealth that...
, Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, in October, 1905, she and Christabel Pankhurst
Christabel Pankhurst

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, Order of the British Empire was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union , she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913....
 interrupted a political meeting to ask Churchill and Sir Edward Grey
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Deputy Lieutenant , better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman and ornithologist....
 if they believed women should have the right to vote.

Neither man replied. The two women got out a banner declaring "Votes for Women", and shouted at the two politicians to answer their questions.






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Annie Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 working-class suffragette
Suffragette

File:British suffragette.jpgSuffragette is a term originally coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for the more Political radicalism and militant members of the late-19th and early-20th century movement for women's suffrage Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Politica...
 who is credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
.

During a Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
 rally at the Free Trade Hall
Free Trade Hall

The Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, was for many years a focal point for public debate and cultural activity in the city. Built in 1853–56 to the designs of Edward Walters, near the site of the 1819 Peterloo massacre, on what is today Peter Street , it has historically been seen as a symbol of free trade and the wealth that...
, Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, in October, 1905, she and Christabel Pankhurst
Christabel Pankhurst

Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, Order of the British Empire was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union , she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913....
 interrupted a political meeting to ask Churchill and Sir Edward Grey
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Deputy Lieutenant , better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman and ornithologist....
 if they believed women should have the right to vote.

Neither man replied. The two women got out a banner declaring "Votes for Women", and shouted at the two politicians to answer their questions. Kenney and Pankhurst were thrown out of the meeting and arrested for causing an obstruction and a technical assault on a police officer. Annie Kenney was imprisoned for three days for her part in the protest, and 13 times in total.

Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst was a political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. Although she was widely criticised for her militant tactics, her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in Britain....
 later wrote in her autobiography that "this was the beginning of a campaign the like of which was never known in England, or for that matter in any other country ...we interrupted a great many meetings... and we were violently thrown out and insulted. Often we were painfully bruised and hurt."

Born in Springhead
Springhead, Greater Manchester

Springhead is a suburban area of Saddleworth, a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.Situated along the eastern edge of the Greater Manchester Urban Area, Springhead is contiguous with the village of Lees, Greater Manchester, the Oldham districts of Greenacres, Greater Manchester and Waterhead,...
, in Saddleworth
Saddleworth

Saddleworth is a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It comprises several villages and Hamlet amongst the Saddleworth Moor of the Pennines: Uppermill, Greenfield, Greater Manchester, Delph, Diggle, Greater Manchester and others....
, on 13 September 1879, the daughter of Nelson Horatio Kenney and Anne Wood, Annie Kenney studied the great thinkers at an early age and joined the Pankhursts in the women's movement after she spent time working in a cotton mill. She was the only working-class woman to become part of the senior hierarchy of the Women's Social and Political Union
Women's Social and Political Union

The Women's Social and Political Union was the leading militant organisation campaigning for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. It was the first group whose members were known as "suffragettes"....
, becoming deputy in 1912, unusual in such a middle-class organisation.

She took her message as far afield as France and America, but eventually married and settled in Letchworth
Letchworth

Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in Hertfordshire, England. The town's name is taken from one of the three villages it surrounded - all of which featured in the Domesday Book....
, Herts, after women won the vote in 1918.

She died on 9 July 1953.

In 1999, Oldham Council put up a blue plaque
Blue plaque

In the United Kingdom, a blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event....
 in her honour at Leesbrook Mill in Lees, Greater Manchester
Lees, Greater Manchester

Lees is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground on the east side of the River Medlock, east of Oldham, and east-northeast of Manchester....
 where she started work in 1892.

See also

  • List of suffragists and suffragettes
    List of suffragists and suffragettes

    File:Votes for Women lapel pin .jpgThis is a list of suffragists and suffragettes who were campaigners for women's suffrage. Suffragists and suffragettes were often members of different societies which had the same aim, but used differing tactics: for example, suffragettes in the United Kingdom usage denotes a more 'militant' type of campai...


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