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Aims and Methods Used by the Suffragists Although they seemed less active than the W.S.P.U., the N.U.W.S.S. were active in trying to convert public opinion. Unlike the Suffragettes, Suffragists welcomed male members in an effort to convince more men to their point of view. They had several methods that they used to persuade the harsh public opinion. peaceful, e.g. reasoned argument, meetings, issuing leaflets and collecting petitions. Met with politicians to argue their case. In elections they supported candidates who were in favour of female suffrage. They trained women to speak at public meetings. In 1866 a group of women from the Kensington Society organised a petition that demanded that women should have the same political rights as men. The women took their petition to Henry Fawcett and John Stuart Mill, two MPs who supported universal suffrage. Mill added an amendment to the Reform Act that would give women the same political...

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