Full Suffrage For Women

The “Full Suffrage for Women” button from the Carrie Chapman Catt Collection is a gold, glittery political pin likely produced in the early 1900s during the height of the women’s suffrage movement. Buttons like this are usually worn at rallies as a symbol of women’s demand for full voting rights. The use of glittering gold, a signature color of the suffrage movement, helped make the message on the button impossible to ignore. This button represents persistence, collective action, and the fight for political equality. In Iowa, suffrage activism helped mobilize women across the state, leading to the development of civic organizations and eventually contributing to the national success of the 19th Amendment in 1920.