BUTTON: Youth Today Tomorrow Power.
[Suffrage Ephemera]. Button: “National Junior Suffrage Corps Youth Today Tomorrow Power.” [NP], [ND, but ca. 1910-1920].
Celluloid button: 1” in diameter with straight pin catch at reverse, button in green, yellow and white displaying a pine tree against a yellow ground with “National Junior Suffrage Corps Youth Today Tomorrow Power” along the rim; some rusting to reverse; minor surface scratches at front; generally very good.
Ida Husted Harper records in Volume V of History Of Woman Suffrage that Mrs. Mary Dennett reported to the 1914 NAWSA annual convention the establishment of a National Junior Suffrage Corps. The brainchild of Caroline Ruutz-Rees of Connecticut, the junior corps helped distribute suffrage material, prepare lists and organize schools. How active and how widespread the corps was is difficult to say; among the suffrage texts we consulted this is the sole reference we located. The button representing a little known aspect of the suffrage movement is most uncommon. Not among the collection assembled by Mrs. Alice Parks nor among the buttons displayed by the National Woman’s Museum at their web site. (History Of Woman Suffrage, by Harper. Volume V, p. 405)
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