1. Women in the 1920s

2. Women’s Rights
Throughout the 1920s women gained more rights and freedoms
By 1929 women were considered “People” under the law
Women who fought for voting rights were called “suffragists” One famous suffragist was Nellie McClung

3. Nellie McClung

4. William Lyon Mackenzie King
Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King supported women’s rights

5. The Famous Five
The famous 5 were a group of suffragists that helped to give women the rights that they have today.

6. Suffragists
Nellie McClung and four other women (the Famous 5) fought to give women the right to vote.
Dominion Election Act the majority of women could vote across Canada & run for election in Parliament
Only white women were allowed to vote and run for election

7. The “Persons Case”
They continued to fight for the right to be appointed to the Senate and brought their case to a special council in England.
In 1929 the Famous 5 succeed. The British council declared that women had the same right as men to be appointed to the Senate.
Famous Five – Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Edwards, Irene Parlby.

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