12th State to Ratify | Arkansas | Virmarie DePoyster, Artist
Her Flag Artist, Virmarie DePoyster
The Arkansas stripe was designed to celebrate not only the well-known faces of the Arkansas women’s suffrage movement, but all women.
Arkansas was the first non-suffrage state to permit women to vote in primary elections striving for change and equality early on. We and the women before us are the driving force of change yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This stripe depicts the progression of women’s self-expression, power, and choice using fashion to mark time. Each section represents a decade of the past century, starting with notable Arkansas suffragists Adolphine Fletcher Terry and Clara McDiarmid. The stripe pays tribute to all women, regardless of size, shape, color, character, or personal identity. So here’s to us, the heroes of the suffrage movement.