#SuffragistNotSuffragette
Image from the Washington State Historic Society
The Suffragette postcard, c. 1909
Supporters of women’s right to vote called themselves “suffragists”. The term “suffragette” was used as a diminutive insult by anti-suffrage advocates. In Britain, women’s rights activists took steps to reclaim the term suffragette, but American suffragists never accepted the alternative name.