{"id":28529,"date":"2012-11-23T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=28529"},"modified":"2012-11-23T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T13:14:18","slug":"suffragettes-banned-speech-to-be-presented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/suffragettes-banned-speech-to-be-presented","title":{"rendered":"Suffragette’s Banned Speech To Be Presented"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A previously banned speech prepared by a noted suffragette will be presented during a \u201cspecial sitting\u201d of the House of Assembly in honour of the women\u2019s suffrage movement\u2018s 50th anniversary, the Minister of Social Services announced.<\/p>\n

Melanie Griffin was speaking at Police Headquarters\u2019 Paul Farquharson Centre where nearly 100 women, including police officers, gathered for a presentation on the suffrage movement as part of National Women\u2019s Month.<\/p>\n

Mrs Griffin announced the sitting will take place on Monday, November 26, and will feature a 1959 speech by Dr Doris Johnson. Dr Johnson was not allowed to deliver her speech in the House by the then governing United Bahamian Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully it will be a joint sitting of both the Senate and the House of Assembly where we expect that 50 years later \u2013 you will recall, those of you who are aware will know \u2013 Dr Johnson, who represented the women\u2019s suffrage movement at the time, was not allowed into the House of Assembly, was not even allowed to the bar to present the petition on behalf of the women.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut 50 years later we will make sure \u2013 the women who stand on their shoulders will make sure \u2013 that petition, that speech she wanted to make will have its day in the House of Assembly,\u201d Mrs Griffin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A banned speech prepared by noted suffragette Dr Doris Johnson in 1959 will be presented during a special sitting of the House of Assembly to honour the women\u2019s suffrage movement\u2018s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[44,179,120],"class_list":["post-28529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-history","tag-vote","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}