Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, suffragette and editor of feminist newspaper Votes for Women, wrote that purple was “the royal colour… it stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every ...

Many graduate suffragettes wore their academic gowns and mortarboards on parade. More and more women began to take up the colours, if only by wearing a beaded necklace in purple, white and green ...

(Katy Stech Ferek/WSJ) Many women at the Democratic National Convention have a dress code for the final day of events: white outfits, the unifying color for suffragettes who fought for the right ...

Women's History Month is meant to celebrate the achievements, resilience, and contributions of women across different backgrounds. But every March, the historical retellings and the images that ...

She soon became a well-known figure at rallies, on her distinctive tricycle decorated in suffragette colours. May, like Annie Kenney, believed in militant action: smashing windows and destroying ...