Ada Susan Flatman was a British suffragette who worked in the United Kingdom and the United States.
16 Facts About Ada Flatman
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Ada Flatman lived in the same Twentieth Century Club Notting Hill rooms as fellow activist Jessie Stephenson.
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Ada Flatman was of independent means and became interested in women's rights.
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In Liverpool she worked with Alice Stewart Ker, but it was Ada Flatman who was trusted by Emmeline Pethick when Liverpool requested that they be allowed to open a WSPU shop.
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Ada Flatman later organised the publicity surrounding the release of Woodlock who had completed a prison term in Holloway.
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Ada Flatman checked into a room at the hotel the night before the event and successfully evaded detectives assigned to follow her.
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In July 1910, Ada Flatman was a key speaker at one of the platforms in the 10,000 women's rally at Hyde Park in London.
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Ada Flatman suddenly stepped down as Liverpool branch co-ordinator in 1910, over a difference in approach to campaigning.
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Shortly after her appointment, Ada Flatman organised for Emmeline Pankhurst, Evelyn Sharp and Constance Lytton to visit and deliver talks in Cheltenham.
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Many activists disagreed; Ada Flatman, living in Bristol, was one, joining the Women's Emergency Corps, founded by Evelina Haverfield.
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Ada Flatman decided to carry on her work in the United States, emigrating to work for Alice Paul's newspaper The Suffragist in 1915, becoming its business and advertising manager.
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Ada Flatman was in Chicago in 1916, working as an outdoor organiser for the Women's Party Convention taking place there.
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The report further noted that Ada Flatman was directing anti-Wilson billboard squads throughout the suffrage states with a view to them pasting a total of one million.
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Ada Flatman returned to England in the 1930s, and was a peace campaigner.
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Ada Flatman supported the work of Edith How-Martyn in documenting the movement in the Suffragette Fellowship.
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Ada Flatman had kept a scrapbook of her suffrage adventures, now held by the Museum of London, and donated a breakfast loaf that she had brought out from Holloway Prison and preserved as a relic of the cause.