Page 18 - All About History - Issue 34-16

Protest

Hall of Fame

REBELSWITHACAUSE

Throughout history, there have been those who have dared to get up and stand up
for not only their rights, but for others. Here, we take a look at ten such individuals

The identity of the rebel
has never been discovered EMMELINE PANKHURST
MUHAMMAD BRITISH 1858 1928
ALI A lifelong supporter of women’s right to vote,

AMERICAN 1942 PRESENT Emmeline Pankhurst’s more forward activities
began in 1889 when she founded the Women’s
Until then best known as Franchise League, followed by the
the World Heavyweight Women’s Social and Political
Boxing Champion, Union (WSPU), which
Muhammad Ali Hunger- militantly campaigned for
became just as striking
Ali was stripped of his well remembered the right to vote. While the
title for refusing to be suffragettes were suffragettes were treated
conscripted for his civil in a heavy-handed
UNKNOWN PROTESTER disobedience when he refused to join released from prison, manner by police, often
after
his
draft
the US army in Vietnam
being arrested and
CHINESE UNKNOWN number was called. He said: “Why only to be re-arrested force-fed, Pankhurst
Also known as ‘Tank Man’, the Unknown Protester should they ask me to put on a uniform once they had built also advocated the use
became a symbol of Chinese rebellion in the wake and go ten thousand miles from home up their strength of tactics such as arson
of the violent crackdown on the Tiananmen Square and drop bombs and bullets on brown and vandalism in certain
protests of June 1989 by standing in front of a people in Vietnam while so-called Negro scenarios. In any case, after
line of tanks, barring their path. After a standoff – people in Louisville are treated like dogs and turning her attentions to supporting
during which he climbed on the tank and appeared denied simple human rights?” In the uproar that the war effort in the wake of World War I, she lived
to converse with the driver – he was dragged off followed he was stripped of his title and sentenced long enough to see women granted equal voting
rights with men in 1928.
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