The pains taken by abolitionists, and suffragettes, and civil rights marchers, and marriage equality advocates brought America's core truth to light: that all people are created equal.
With the growing popularity of bicycles though in the late 19th century, they came back with a vengeance and were adopted by prominent suffragettes of the time.
In England, the suffragette movement was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until 1928, when women did in fact get the right to vote in England.
These days a woman choosing not to change her name to match her husband’s after marriage has long been a norm. The first recorded case is widely believed to be an American suffragette called Lucy Stone.
They can't leap in front of the king's horse like a suffragette or stage a sit-in like a civil rights activist or go on a Salt March to defy their colonial oppressors like Mahatma Gandhi.
But you know that they had the New York Times behind them. I think was a huge part of it but yeah, it just felt like like the suffragettes, like make a film about this. This is really amazing.
And to be one of those suffragettes all in white and to feel part of that and the emotion that was involved around that. So I'd like to be that. Any battle ever for the other one.
When she returns home from a meeting of the suffragettes, she learns that her nanny is quitting – is leaving her job. Mrs. Banks is very upset, very angry, since the family has had a difficult time keeping nannies.