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11:55, 11-Jun-2018
Women celebrate 100 years of female suffrage across UK
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Thousands of women marched through major cities in the UK to celebrate the centenary of women gaining the right to vote in the country.
Participants wore the Suffragettes' colors of green, white or violet, and coordinated with each other to appear as a flowing river of color through the streets of London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff.
Many were carrying banners hand-made for the Processions event in collaboration with female artists.
Frustrated with years of peaceful campaigning for the vote, the Suffragettes adopted militant tactics, chaining themselves to railings, breaking shop windows and blowing up post boxes.
The 1918 Representation of the People Act extended the right to vote in Britain to women over the age of 30 who had a minimum property qualification.
But it was not until 1928 that women gained the same rights as men with the Equal Franchise Act, which reduced the voting age to 21, regardless of property ownership.
Source(s): AP
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