During this period, purple, along with white and green, emerged as one of the movement's symbolic colours, representing dignity, purity, and hope. The Suffragette Movement: In the United Kingdom ...

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, suffragette and editor of feminist newspaper Votes for Women, wrote that purple was “the royal colour… it stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every ...

Many graduate suffragettes wore their academic gowns and mortarboards on parade. More and more women began to take up the colours, if only by wearing a beaded necklace in purple, white and green ...

The trend then evolved as WWII commenced. During WWII, Hitler hated red lipstick and sought to ban cosmetic surgery from ...

The Scottish Parliament's presiding officer has apologised after a woman was ejected from a committee meeting for refusing to remove a scarf in suffragette colours. The woman was asked to leave a ...

(Katy Stech Ferek/WSJ) Many women at the Democratic National Convention have a dress code for the final day of events: white outfits, the unifying color for suffragettes who fought for the right ...

Age was no barrier to taking part in the celebrations Young and old, and wearing green, white or violet - the suffragette colours - the women marched through Cardiff at the same time as women in ...

She soon became a well-known figure at rallies, on her distinctive tricycle decorated in suffragette colours. May, like Annie Kenney, believed in militant action: smashing windows and destroying ...

Gloria Steinem on the role of women of color in the suffrage movement Feminist writer, author and activist Gloria Steinem said that Black, indigenous and other American women of color were ...