Emmeline Pankhurst, Manchester, 1858 London, 1928, British political activist and leader of the suffragette movement that won women the right to vote in Great Britain. In 1903 she founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a suffragette organisation made up solely of women, affiliated with the Labour Party but which identified itself as independent and in constant opposition to political parties. Its members, known as suffragettes, advocated the use of tactics such as sabotage, graffiti, the burning of shops and public establishments or attacks on police officers and the private homes of prominent members of the Government and Parliament. In 1879 she married Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer twenty-four years her senior and known for his strong support of women's right to vote, with whom she had five children. Her husband supported her activities and together they founded the Women's Suffrage League, which advocated voting for both married and unmarried women. When the organisation dissolved, Pankhurst attempted to join the Labour Party but was initially rejected because she was a woman, leading her to found the WSPU. She, her daughters and other activists were repeatedly sentenced to prison, where they went on hunger strike to secure better conditions. In 1999, Time magazine named Pankhurst one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.