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Caroline Ruutz-Rees, 2nd from left, next to Mrs. Katharine Hepburn in white. Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association, 1912. Courtesy of the Connecticut State Library & State Archives. Purple, white, and gold were the colors of the American suffrage movement.
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