Inez Milholland Boissevain was the first of four mounted heralds in the March 3, 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. Their message was: women deserved the right to vote, and they wouldn’t stop until an amendment to the constitution was passed to that effect. Inez was committed to other social reforms as well - better work conditions for children, African Americans’ rights, and shirtwaist & laundry workers’ rights.

In this piece, Inez carries the suffragists‘ flag bearing the cause’s colors: Purple, the color of loyalty and steadfastness to the suffragist cause; White, the emblem of purity, symbolizing the quality of their purpose; and Gold, the color of light and life, the torch that guides the suffragists’ purpose - pure and unswerving.

The Woman Voter was a monthly journal started in 1910 by Carrie Chapman Catt‘s Woman Suffrage Party in New York City. It was sent to members with news of party activities and editorials on the women’s suffrage struggle. They even included stories for children about suffrage.