The City of Signal Hill will raise the Women’s Suffrage Victory flag at City facilities from March 1 to April 1 in honor of Women’s History Month.
The Women’s Suffrage Victory flag is one of ten commemorative flags the Signal Hill City Council approved to fly at City facilities during 2022.
The purple, white and gold flag was first unfurled in its completed form by the National Woman’s Party on Aug. 18, 1920 to commemorate women winning the right to vote with the passing of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
The 36 stars on the flag represent the 36 states that voted to ratify the 19th amendment, and were added to the flag one at a time by members of the National Woman’s Party as the states voted.
According to a 1913 newsletter by the U.S. National Woman’s Party, the colors of the flag were chosen because “Purple is the color of loyalty, constancy to purpose, unswerving steadfastness to a cause. White, the emblem of purity, symbolizes the quality of our purpose; and gold, the color of light and life, is as the torch that guides our purpose, pure and unswerving.”
