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The League of Women Voters of Erie County, a nonpartisan grassroots organization, is dedicated to protecting and expanding voting rights, increasing civic engagement, and defending democracy through education and advocacy.

We believe in the power of the people to create a more perfect democracy.

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Typical suffrage movement clothing included white clothing with sashes that were tri-colored gold, white, and purple — the colors of the suffrage movement.

As described in a 1913 National Women’s Party newsletter:

PURPLE is the color of loyalty, constancy and purpose and unswerving steadfastness to a cause.

WHITE represents femininity and purity, counteracting the negative attacks that suffragists were portrayed as masculine and ugly.

GOLD, which replaced green from England’s suffrage movement in 1867, is the color of light and life and is the torch that guides our purpose. The switch from green to gold happened as Kansas was considering a passage of state suffrage referendum. Their state flower, the sunflower, was adopted as the flower of the suffrage movement. As a result, the gold inspired by the flower was added to the colors of the suffrage movement. Sunflower had also been a pen name of Elizabeth Cady Stanton as she authored newspaper articles.