Gold suffrage ribbons from across the country.

USE OF GOLD AS SYMBOLIC COLOR

By 1887, at the 37th annual convention of the Indiana American Woman Suffrage Society, "the ladies and gentlemen present all donned the 'sunflower' [gold] ribbon of the suffrage cause." [5]

That same year, an article titled "Show Your Colors" in Justica, a pro-suffrage, pro-women's rights journal, explained:

"It has remained . . . for the 'Equality before the law' agitators to don an emblematic color. Yellow, the color of sunflower petals, has been adopted as the distinguishing badge of the woman suffrage army;. . . The sunflower seems an appropriate flower, as it always turns its face to the light and follows the course of the sun, seemingly worshipping the archetype of righteousness. Let us all don the yellow ribbon, and fling our banners to the breeze. By this sign let us be known, and the more who wear it the greater our strength will be. . . . It (the color yellow( was first adopted at the American Woman Suffrage Convention in Philadelphia (probably the 1876 convention of the suffragists celebrating the United States Centennial), and was the suggestion of Mrs. Laura Johns, of Kansas." [6]

	This classic suffrage graphic, "Give Her of the Fruit," uses an idealized woman classically clothed, the color gold, and a biblical passage for its text. The graphic appeared in a variety of formats–on posters, magazines, pamphlets, etc.

During the major push for suffrage between 1910 and 1920, it was customary to decorate local suffrage headquarters in yellow and gold. The Woman Voter reported, "In Auburn's (New York) business section there is a store whose windows, always cheerful with yellow banners, yellow dolls, and other yellow souvenirs, draw the attention of many passers by." [7]