National Woman’s Suffrage Congressional Union Flag
name: label: associated institution
content: National Woman's Party
label: associated person
content: Paul, Alice
label: commemorated
content: National Woman's Suffrage Congressional Union
notes: label: Description
content: This is the flag of the National Woman’s Suffrage Congressional Union.
label: Description
content: In 1914 Alice Paul split from the more conservative National American Woman Suffrage Association, eventually founding the National Woman’s Party. It replaced British suffragettes’ green with yellow as the new American suffrage color.
label: Description
content: Alice Paul and Lucy Burns felt that more should be being done to lobby Congress directly and that American suffragists could adapt the tactics of spectacle and political pressure employed by the British "suffragettes." Their new National Woman’s Party (NWP) used parades, petitions, protests, and eventually pickets in an ambitious campaign for a woman suffrage amendment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: general subject association
content: Women's Suffrage
label: Subject
content: Equal Rights Amendment
label: Subject
content: Voting Rights
setName: label: See more items in
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: Gift of Alice Paul Centennial Foundation Inc
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0165.124
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0165.124
label: accession number
content: 1987.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flag
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 13 in x 27 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 69.85 cm