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On a late summer day in 1915, Utah women paraded through Salt Lake City’s Main Street with cars decorated in purple, white, and gold flags.1 The automobile procession greeted national women’s suffrage leaders just arriving in Utah for a large convention on behalf of the radical Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU).2 That day’s elaborate display of progressivism, however, was neither controversial nor was it led by militants. Instead, it included many of the most respected, and respectable, women of Utah society.
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A photograph taken on the steps of the Utah State Capitol Building on the occasion of a national suffrage envoy visiting the state, October 1915. Courtesy National Woman’s Party (NWP) Collection, Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, Washington, D.C.
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