Smyth goes on to write 'March of the Women' for the WSPU. Arrested and sentenced to two months in HMP Holloway, she was visited by her friend Sir Thomas Beecham. He found her leaning out of her cell window, conducting her fellow inmates in a chorus of the song, with her toothbrush as a baton.
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She was also a suffragist, attempting to register to vote in 1871.

The medal was revoked in 1917, but Walker refused to return it, and wore it until her death in 1919. It was restored to her in 1977.
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A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice.

"I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.

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One was left with her hands chained over her head all night. Another was slammed into the edge of her bed so hard her cellmate thought she was dead.

Media reports of the brutalisation created public pressure, and by the end of November all the suffragist women had been released.
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At Occoquan, some began hunger strikes and were force fed.

In November 1917, the supervisor of the workhouse ordered the guards to brutalise the suffragists. They dragged, beat, choked and pinched the women.

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They were charged with “blocking traffic” on the pavement of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Any found guilty would refuse to pay the fine, so that they'd be sent to jail. Once numbers exceeded the capacity of the local jailhouse, convicted women were sent to the Occoquan Workhouse.

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She introduces 9 bills and 3 amendments in the year she is there, before resigning to become an assistant state director.

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Anthony is subsequently arrested, put on trial and found guilty.

At her trial she says: "you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored."
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In 2022 Adam stood in the Somalian Presidential election, the only woman out of 36 candidates. She did not make it through the first round.