Woman Suffrage Button
notes: label: Description
content: Button worn by supporters of woman suffrage.
label: Description
content: This button displays two symbols of the suffrage movement: the colors purple, white and green and the popular slogan “Votes for Women,” Purple, green and white were the colors adopted by the British woman’s suffrage organization, the Women’s Social and Political Union (formed in 1903 and dissolved in 1917, the WSPU was instrumental in bringing about universal woman’s suffrage in Britain, which was not gained until 1928). When Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch formed the Women’s Political Union in the United States (originally the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women), she adopted the purple, green and white standard as well.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Caroline L. Babcock
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.246529.09
label: catalog number
content: 246529.09
label: accession number
content: 246529
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 in x 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm x .635 cm