USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They emerged in 1867 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were in Kansas advocating for a state suffrage referendum. The pair adopted the state flower, the sunflower, as a symbol of the suffrage cause. Suffragists began wearing gold pins and yellow ribbons to advertise their cause.

Detailed explanation-2: -White, purple, and yellow British suffragists were the first to use the colors purple, white, and green and, inspired by that example, the National Woman’s Party, the militant U.S. organization dedicated to enshrining women’s suffrage in the Constitution, adopted white, purple and yellow as its colors.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anthony sat dressed in black. It was a nod to her New England Quaker roots-but it was also the uniform of her movement. The grande dame of female suffrage was at least 80 years old when this picture was taken around the year 1900, and she had abandoned experimenting with her clothes decades ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women’s suffrage.