National Woman’s Suffrage Congressional Union Flag
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Object Details
- associated institution
- National Woman's Party
- associated person
- Paul, Alice
- commemorated
- National Woman's Suffrage Congressional Union
- Description
- This is the flag of the National Woman’s Suffrage Congressional Union.
- In 1914 Alice Paul split from the more conservative National American Woman Suffrage Association, eventually founding the National Woman’s Party. It replaced British suffragettes’ green with yellow as the new American suffrage color.
- Alice Paul and Lucy Burns felt that more should be being done to lobby Congress directly and that American suffragists could adapt the tactics of spectacle and political pressure employed by the British "suffragettes." Their new National Woman’s Party (NWP) used parades, petitions, protests, and eventually pickets in an ambitious campaign for a woman suffrage amendment.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- general subject association
- Women's Suffrage
- Subject
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Voting Rights
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Women's History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Woman Suffrage
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alice Paul Centennial Foundation Inc
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 1987.0165.124
- catalog number
- 1987.0165.124
- accession number
- 1987.0165
- Object Name
- flag
- Physical Description
- fabric (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- purple (overall color)
- white (overall color)
- gold (overall color)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 13 in x 27 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 69.85 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmah_1065893