This book provides a reappraisal of a woman whose contribution to a wide variety of causes is often overlooked, whether as the employer of the first black journalist in Britain - the activist and writer Claude McKay - or as an early campaigner for pan-Africanism. Pankhurst's changing affiliations and commitments - from her early suffragette activities, through her involvement with disenfranchized and impoverished women in London's East End, to her passionate embrace of the Soviet revolution and the cause of communism worldwide - mirror the history of radical politics in the 20th century.
