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100 Years of Women's Suffrage
Celebrating the Centennial of Women's Suffrage 2020
In an ongoing effort to bring Library of Congress programs beyond its walls ,the Architect of the Capitol has planted these flowerbeds to commemorate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote nationally. The colors of the beds reflect colors adopted by various groups during the American women's suffrage movement, particularly the Congressional Union (later National Woman's Party), which noted in its newsletter The Suffragist, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1913), the meaning of the group's choices:
"Purple is the color of loyalty, constancy to purpose, unswerving steadfastness to a cause.
White, the emblem of purity, symbolizes the quality of our purpose.
Gold, the color of light and life, is as the torch that guides our purpose, pure and unswerving.":
Gold was also a color favored by early suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. |