Woman Suffrage Button
notes: label: Description
content: Button worn by supporters of woman suffrage. Purple, green and white were the colors worn by British suffragettes. When Harriot Stanton Blatch (daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton) formed the Women’s Political Union in the United States, she adopted the color scheme.
label: Description
content: Women had the right to vote in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807, provided they held a certain amount of property. In 1807 that right was explicitly rescinded. Women did not regain the vote in New Jersey until the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New Jersey
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Woman Suffrage
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0606.163
label: accession number
content: 1980.0606
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0606.163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.27 cm