TheMud March, or United Procession of Women, was a peaceful demonstration in London on 9 February 1907 organised by theNational Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), in which more than three thousand women marched fromHyde Park Corner to theStrand in support ofwomen's suffrage. Women from all classes participated in the largest public demonstration supporting women's suffrage seen to that date. It acquired the name "Mud March" from the day's weather; incessant heavy rain left the marchers drenched and mud-spattered. The NUWSS and other groups organised the march to coincide with theopening of Parliament. The event attracted much public interest and broadly sympathetic press coverage, but when a women's suffrage bill was presented the following month it was "talked out" without a vote. The march had a large impact on public awareness and on the movement's tactics. Large peaceful public demonstrations, never previously attempted, became standard features of the suffrage campaign.(Full article...)
February 9:Feast day ofSaint Apollonia (inRoman Catholicism andEastern Orthodoxy)
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The American television seriesLokiwon 11 awards from 96 nominations. Created byMichael Waldron for the streaming serviceDisney+ and based onMarvel Comics, it features the characterLoki.Tom Hiddleston(pictured) received the most acting nominations for the series. It was nominated for fourCritics' Choice Television Awards and ninePrimetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. From major guilds, the series was nominated for twoArt Directors Guild Awards, threeCostume Designers Guild Awards, aScreen Actors Guild Award, and twoWriters Guild of America Awards. (Full list...)
 | Laura Clay (February 9, 1849 – June 29, 1941) was a leader of the Americanwomen's suffrage movement and the co-founder and first president of theKentucky Equal Rights Association. She was one of the most important suffragists in the South, favoring thestates' rights approach to suffrage. A powerful orator, she was active in the Democratic Party and had important leadership roles in local, state and national politics. In 1920 at theDemocratic National Convention, she was one of two women to be the first women to have their names placed into nomination for the presidency at the convention of a major political party. This photograph by theGerhard Sisters shows Clay in 1916. Photograph credit:Gerhard Sisters; restored byKentuckian Recently featured: |
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