For her historic remarks as the first woman elected vice president, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) wore white — an enduring symbol of the suffrage movement that won women the right to vote a century ago.
“White, once the color of women’s purity, now the color of female power,” tweeted New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wearing suffragette white. On the 100 year anniversary of women getting the right to vote, a woman wins on the presidential ticket pic.twitter.com/Mu8M4wYOVG
— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) November 8, 2020
Women have dressed in white before as an emblem of history: During President Trump’s State of the Union address last year, many of the female lawmakers wore white.
Saturday night, Harris spoke about being a first among women; a daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, she is now the highest-ranking woman in politics in the nation’s history.
“While I might be the first woman in this office, I won’t be the last,” Harris said, “because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”
