These women militants, or suffragettes, as they were known, were sent to prison and continued their protests there by engaging in hunger strikes. Get Unlimited Access Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more. Subscribe Meanwhile, public support of the woman suffrage movement grew in ...
Shortly before the stroke of midnight on August 14, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, made a famous speech entitled “A Tryst with Destiny”: Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full ...
For example, if a prison lacks heating in the winter and the prisoners make a formal complaint, instead of addressing this basic human right, the prison might violate the prisoners' rights by punishing them with no recreation time. What are the laws that limit cases brought by prisoners? The...
Based largely on these figures, the Five Year Industrial Production Plan was fulfilled by 93.7 percent in only four years, and the heavy-industry targets were exceeded, reaching 108 percent of the goal. In December 1932 Stalin declared the plan a success to the Central Committee, since increases...
Katra Kesha Dev temple. It is built over the place believed to be the prison cell where Lord Krishna was born. Standing adjacent to it is the Jama Masjid built by Abe-In-Nabir Khan, the local governor, in 1661 AD, on the ruins of the Keshav Deo temple destroyed under the instructions...
1/Jan/1881 Dr John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes 2/Jan/1947 Lord Bevin commented that with half of the population of beggars and thieves, India is ungovernable Nation 3/Jan/1925 Benito Mussolini announces he will become dictator of Italy 4/Ja
A current example that’s fueled much of the recent round of CRT criticism is the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which seeks to put slavery’s history and its effects as well as blacks’ contributions to democratic reforms front and center in American history. Nonetheless, we must understand...
in the The Atlantic that during Reconstruction, “negroes exercised an influence in political affairs out of all relation to their intelligence or property,” and that, “the ultimate root of the trouble in the South had been, not the institution of slavery, but the coexistence of two races ...
All five were sentenced to long terms in prison. Lonsdale-Molody and the Kroger-Cohens were swapped for British agents arrested in the USSR. Houghton and Gee were released after serving nine out of 15 years and then married By the 1970s some countries, notably the USA and the USSR had sp...
Why have kings, emperors, and governments killed and imprisoned people to shut them up? And why have countless people risked death and imprisonment to express their beliefs? Jacob Mchangama guides you through the history of free speech from the trial of