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  Annie Kenney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Annie Kenney (1879-1953) was a working-class suffragette who is credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill.
Kenney and Pankhurst were thrown out of the meeting and arrested for causing an obstruction and a technical assault on a police officer.
Annie Kenney was imprisoned for three days for her part in the protest, and 13 times in total.
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 Annie Kenney
Annie Kenney, the daughter of Nelson Horatio Kenney and Anne Wood, was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1879.
Annie was extremely impressed with the content of the speech and the two women soon became close friends.
As Annie Kenney was one of the organisations few working class members, when the WSPU decided to open a branch in the East End of London, she was asked to leave the mill and become a full-time worker for the organisation.
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 AIM25: Women's Library: Papers of Jessie Kenney
Administrative/Biographical history: zJessie Kenney was born in Lees, near Oldham, Lancashire in 1887 to Anne and Horatio Kenney.
She was one of 11 children of whom her elder sister Annie, Jane, Nell and herself would later join the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and all of whom would receive a remarkable education in the family home.
Kenney did not return immediately to London after her time in Switzerland but went to Paris to live with Christabel Pankhurst for a short time before beginning a gruelling routine which involved commuting to Glasgow every week to oversee the clandestine production of the 'Suffragette' newspaper.
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 Annie Kenney
The WSPU was often accused of being an organisation that existed to serve the middle and upper classes.
(1) Annie Kenney was born in Lancashire in 1879.
Annie Kenney seemed to have a whole-hearted faith in the goodness of everybody that she met… Her strength lay in complete surrender of mind and soul to a single idea and to the incarnation of that idea in a single person.
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Annie had never been in a bi<» meeting in her life, but she was an earnest believer in our cause, and she agreed to go to the meeting and ask a question if my daughter would go with her and hold her hand.
J^_ constable came to Annie and told her if she would write her question he would take it up to the platform and it would be answered.
Annie received a sentence of three days in jail and my daughter one of seven days, both with the option of a fine.
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 (Surnames from Kennedy, Katie T. ) San Francisco Call Newspaper Vital Records for 1869-1891
Kenney, Annie M. married in 1883 to De Lorme, Amada E. Kenney, B. died in 1873...
Kenney, Charles A. married in 1889 to Sharp, Lotta...
Kenney, Frank T. married in 1890 to Lethiec, Adeline B. Kenney, George P. married in 1885 to Everett, Lillian A. Kenney, Gussie M. married in 1881 to Hammon, Wendell...
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 Tucson Weekly : Music : Live
Kenney hopped on stage, hooked up his pedals, strapped on his guitar and began playing "Fuck This...
Two songs in, and Kenney started laughing after looking at the set list--apparently, they write their set lists in anagrams, "to keep things interesting," and he couldn't figure out the next song.
Vibraphonist Sean Ripple danced in his new-looking white sneakers and shook maracas, and Kenney swayed with eyes closed as the band delved into their looping melodies and rhythm structures.
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 Suffrage photographs
Annie Kenney, a former mill worker, was an organiser for the WSPU in the West Country and was a key figure for the Blathwayt family.
In many publicity shots Annie Kenney is dressed in typical mill workers’ clothes, such as shawl, apron and clogs, in order to emphasise that the movement attracted women from all social classes.
Annie Kenney in particular is photographed in a conventional female pose as she gazes wistfully at her tree, holding the top branch as gently as possible.
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 What did the Suffragettes do - Andrew Rosen
At the Town Hall, Christabel and Annie were charged with disorderly behaviour, and obstructing a footway by causing a crowd to assemble.
The meeting had been planned to coincide with the reading of the King's Speech*, and after Mrs Pankhurst, Annie Kenney, and Mrs Montefiore had all spoken, there was a lengthy wait to hear whether the new Government had included women's enfranchisement* in its programme.
Knowing that Haldane* was to speak in the Sun Hall in Liverpool on 20 August, the WSPU rented a house adjoining the hall, and during Haldane's speech suffragettes in the house threw bricks at the hall's windows.
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 Bryan Family History
Sue was born on August 30, 1842 in Ohio and is the daughter of John Wesley Kenney and Maria Estill (McHenry) Kenney.
ANNIE LEE CAMPBELL (1.5.2.3.1.10) is the daughter of William Travis Campbell and Susanna Funk (Kenney) Campbell.
Annie was born in April of 1878 in Texas.
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 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Anne Kenney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kenney joined Summit in April 2005 as Senior Underwriter, Vice President.
With over 18 years in the commercial finance industry, her experience covers a broad range of lending, underwriting, credit, and structuring functions.
Kenney attended Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
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 Kenney Family Genealogy Forum
Howard Kenny or Kenney in NJ - Maggie Sutton 12/10/05
Kenney and Maud Wood ~ Lucas County, Iowa - Deborah Brownfield - Stanley 9/16/04
William Kenney, brother of Ernest, Clarence and Sadie in NB - Brenda Taylor 7/08/04
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 Kenney Tom Kenney's Page. Now Serving Number Free Counter Supplied By Webcounter At   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bridget Kenney was born about 1820 in Ireland and married Michael Kane Interested in finding anyone connected to this family.
Larry Kenney, is the man behind many of the voices you hear on the Imus program.
Books related to the name: Kenney Bestselling Books Born of a lowly line, Noteless as once was Kenney, One of that name I would were kin to me. Listnamesix.
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 FLORA DRUMMOND
She recorded that in her spare time she did voluntary social work in Ancoats and, if so, must then have known Teresa Billington She was also involved in the co-operative movement and in the Women's Co-operative Guild.
On 9 March she, Irene Fenwick Miller and Annie Kenney led a demonstration to Downing Street, repeatedly knocking on the door of No. 10.
Sylvia Pankhurst in ‘The Suffragette Movement’ dismisses Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney as being merely Christabel's spokeswomen.
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 Guardian | They broke the law with pride
When no response came, she clambered on to her seat and repeated the offence, flourishing a home-made banner to ram home the point.
A few moments later, Annie Kenney and her friend Christabel Pankhurst were outside on the pavement, having been dragged from the hall by outraged party officials.
For women like May Billinghurst and Annie Kenney, who escaped a life in the Lancashire mills to become a full-time campaigner, the suffragette movement was a liberation in itself.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Emmeline Pankhurst - Suffragette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On 13 October, 1905, Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney attended a meeting in London to hear Sir Edward Grey, a minister in the British government.
Ms Pankhurst and Ms Kenney refused to leave and during the struggle, a policeman claimed they kicked and spat at him.
Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney were found guilty of assault and fined five shillings each.
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 Manchester Politicians and Social Reformers including Arthur Balfour, Annie Kenney, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw and ...
Born at Springfield near Oldham in 1879, Annie Kenney is best known as an outspoken suffragette and companion to the Pankhursts in the early 1900s.
Later, as a leading WSPU speaker, Annie moved to London, and was jailed on numerous occasions for her protests and outspoken views.
By 1913 she had become a major organiser in the west of England, and in 1914 she went to America to start the womens' suffrage movement in the USA.
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 Deeds, not Words* - Part 2
The Ill Health Act became known as the Cat and Mouse Act by critics, and was intended to make suffragettes serve every single day of their sentence.
Annie was one of the lucky ones--she survived the force-feedings without serious physical damage.
Kitty Marion suffered so intensely during the 232 times she was force-fed that she "felt she was going mad and begged the doctor to give her poison.
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 Women's suffrage movement: Holloway prison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first suffragettes to be sent to prison were Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney, in Manchester in 1905.
They were given knitting and sewing to do, a book about housekeeping, and little else.
Annie Kenney described being imprisoned after so much activity outside: "I summed up prison as follows – Too much discipline, too little companionship, too much gloom, too little laughter.
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 The Women
Her house was besieged for six weeks by bailiffs waiting to get out furniture valued to the amount of tax she owed.
In 1905, Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney had created a disturbance in Manchester when they disrupted addresses by Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey – both prominent Liberals of the day.
Secondly, their conduct at that meeting in Manchester tarred the public perception of women who were seeking political equality with men.
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 © Extracts from Mary and Emily Blathwayt's Diary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
M 25 Nov. I went to the Guildhall this morning at 10.30 with many other members of the W.S.P.U. and a number of men of the Men's P.U. Miss Mabel Capper was to be tried for breaking the Post Office window in Bath last night.
I sat next to Annie Kenney in the front row of the gallery.
She was sentenced to a fine of £1, and £4 for damage done; or a month's inprisonment; she has gone to prison.
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 HIS3700 Special Subject - Votes for Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Annie Kenney was also an interesting working-class suffragette.
An intimate of the Pankhurst family (she was known as 'Christabel's blotting paper'), Kenney and her sister became involved in the W.S.P.U. while the Pankhursts were still in Manchester, moving to London with them.
Kenney's autobiography is: Annie Kenney, Memoirs of a militant, 1924.
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 ... short term memory loss ... a blog about books ...: 3 for 2s (and the Suffragettes)
Then Annie Kenney stood up: 'Will the Liberal Government give the vote to women?' There was no reply and the chairman called for other questions.
Signed, on behalf of the W.S.P.U., Annie Kenney (member of the Oldham Committee of the Card and Blowingroom operatives).' She added that for the sake of the ninety-six thousand organised women cotton workers, of whom she was one, she wished her question to be answered.
The two weomen were dragged into the gangway and swept out of the hall past the platform.
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 Kenney Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
Ancestors of Alvin and Elvira Kenney - Eleanore McEachern 2/20/00
Re: Ancestors of Alvin and Elvira Kenney - Donna Kinville 11/02/01
Re: Ancestors of Alvin and Elvira Kenney - Smartass 8/27/00
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 Reference Encyclopedias Subject Encyclopedias Spartacus Educational Socialism and the Labour Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Annie Besant - Noted Socalist, women's rights, and trade union activist during the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Member of the Secular Society; wrote and published her own book advocating birth control entitled The Laws of Population.
Annie Kenney - Women's rights activist during the early 1900's, also active in the Labour movement.
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 Biography of Emmeline Pankhurst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 1889, Mrs Pankhurst founded the Women's Franchise League, but her campaign was not interrupted by her husband's death in 1898.
In 1903 she founded the better-known Women's Social and Political Union, a militant movement whose members included the notorious Annie Kenney, the suffragette "martyr", Emily Davison and the composer, Dame Ethel Smyth.
She was joined in the movement by her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, both of whom would make a substantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
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 Sacrifice that is all but forgotten
But, as she unfurled the Votes For Women banner hidden in her blouse and waved it high in the air, she was determined not to back down.
The serious-minded men at the meeting, which was being held by the Liberal Party at Manchester's Free Trade Hall, were soon in total uproar at the very idea that Christabel and her companion, Oldham mill worker Annie Kenney, could even contemplate such outrageous behaviour.
As she was escorted from the hall, she spat in the policeman's face, knowing perfectly well her actions would land her in prison.
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 (Surnames from Kennedy, Patrick ) San Francisco Call Newspaper Vital Records for 1869-1895
married in 1888 to Sullivan, Nellie A. Kenney, Elizabeth...
married in 1890 to Lethiec, Adeline B. Kenney, Frederick...
married in 1876 to Madden, Patrick H. Kenney, Margaret...
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 Prisons and Prisoners.
The first Sunday that we were together, the girls of the club were asked to come in early that evening, so that Jessie Kenney, Annie Kenney's sister, who had only recently been released from Holloway, might tell them of her prison experiences.
I felt that through Annie Kenney's whole being throbbed the passion of her soul for other women, to lift from them the heavy burden, to give them life, strength, freedom, joy, and the dignity of human beings, that in all things they might be treated fairly with men.
From my babyhood I have felt a burning indignation against unkindness to animals, and in their defence I have sometimes acted with a courage not natural to me. But on seeing this sheep it seemed to reveal to me for the first time the position of women throughout the world.
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 Biography of Christabel Pankhurst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The daughter of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, in 1905, Christabel Pankhurst interrupted a Liberal Party meeting by shouting demands for voting rights for women.
Christabel and fellow suffragette Annie Kenney went to prison rather than pay a fine as punishment for their outburst.
Their case gained much media interest and the ranks of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) swelled following their trial.
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