Roaring 1920s
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- Emily Murphy: Why are only men considered as people.
- Nellie McClurg: women deserve rights.
- In, 1929 these now famous, five women came to a realization that women were not treated fairly. Throughout the years before 1929 Women were not considered as a "person". Women did not have the right to vote, or the right to be part of the government. These women decide to make change...
- Henrietta Muir Edwards: This is unfair!!
- Irene Parlby: We need to make change.
- Louise McKenny: Everyone should be equal.
- Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Louise McKinney, They petitioned the federal government to refer the issue of the eligibility of women to be senators to the Supreme Court of Canada. ( persons case)
- Emily Murphy: Lets take a petition to the federal government to make change for women to be eligible to be a senator...
- Nellie McClung: we must take action and help all women...
- On the way to the federal court...
- Mellie McClung: we are going to take this petition into court with the federal government and ask them if " the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?" In 1928,
- Henrietta Muir Edwards: What are we gonna say to the federal government?
- Louise McKenny: yes, that will work. everyone should be equal!!
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