Say ‘suffragette’ and what do you see? Long skirt, high-collared blouse and a tricolour sash reading ‘Votes For Women’. Little did they know they would remain the ultimate example of ...

The Knoxville Suffrage Coalition decorated the statues of the Women’s Suffrage Memorial with sashes to honor the work they ...

Various women donned white dresses wearing sashes of purple and green — and later on purple and gold — marching for American ...

She later died in hospital. Some historians have suggested she had intended to attach the sash to the horse’s bridle to promote the movement for women’s suffrage to the large crowd.

But in the 100 years since some women first ... with the ubiquitous sash and band around her hat in the distinctive shades of purple, green and white. Leading suffragette Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence ...

They were the colors of the Women’s Suffrage and Political Union (WSPU ... in white marched on Washington D.C. wearing white with sashes in purple and green.” White is said to calm and ...

Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

Liberal accounts of the women’s suffrage movement in the UK (often now referred to as the originally pejorative term “suffragettes”) often ignore or downplay its violence. While many do refer to the ...

After the United States entered the war, American suffragists strongly felt that if America could defend democracy abroad, they deserved it at home, in the form of votes for women. Beginning in ...

She later died in hospital. Some historians have suggested she had intended to attach the sash to the horse’s bridle to promote the movement for women’s suffrage to the large crowd.