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What was Emmeline Pankhurst’s legacy?

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Emmeline Pankhurst’s work with the Women’s Social and Political Union ultimately facilitated the success of the Representation of the People Act in 1928, which granted British women the same voting rights as men. (She died just before its passage.) Her time spent lecturing abroad also helped encourage women’s suffrage movements in North America.