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The League of Women Voters of Erie County is working tirelessly to provide voter services, educate the public, and advocate for positive change at the local, state, and national level. By becoming a member, you will have the power of shaping issues that matter to you and will be given endless opportunities to learn and lead.

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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.