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- NAME: Emily Davison
- OCCUPATION: Women's Rights Activist
- BIRTH DATE: October 11, 1872
- DEATH DATE: June 08, 1913
- EDUCATION: Royal Holloway College, Oxford University, Kensington Prep School
- PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England, United Kingdom
- PLACE OF DEATH: Epsom, England, United Kingdom
- Full Name: Emily Wilding Davison
- AKA: Emily Davison
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Militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison fought to gain equal voting rights for British women before dying at the Epsom Derby in 1913.
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The horse crashed into Davison and struck her in the head. The jockey riding Anmer was also injured, but the horse was unhurt. Davison was taken from the track and brought to a nearby hospital. Never regaining consciousness, she died four days later on June 8, 1913. Press reports criticized her actions as the act of a madwoman,
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but suffragist newspapers hailed Davison as a martyr for the cause. Whether she intended to commit suicide at the derby has been debated for years. Some think it was accidental as Davison had bought a round-trip train ticket to go home after the event. In any case, supporters of the Votes for Women campaign turned out by the thousands for Davison's funeral procession. Her body was laid to rest in Morpeth, Northumberland. Her gravestone reads "Deeds not Words," a popular suffragist motto.
Roughly 15 years after her death, Davison's dream was finally realized. Britain gave women the right to vote in 1928.
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