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By 1915, more and more women in Texas were supporting women's suffrage. The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs officially supported women's suffrage in 1915. Also that year, anti-suffrage opponents started to speak out against women's suffrage and in 1916, organized the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (TAOWS).
However, the suffragists in Texas were unable to have equal suffrage adopted in the party platforms of the Democratic, Republican, or Populist Party. [2] Beaumont, Belton, Circleville, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio set up local chapters of TERA. [7] TERA is divided over whether to invite Susan B. Anthony to give lectures in Texas. [10] 1895
Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs endorses suffrage in 1917. [1] Texas Woman Suffrage Association, which later becomes the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) in 1916. [14] Waco Equal Franchise Society. [15] Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Texas chapter, endorses women's suffrage in 1888. [1]
The Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) was the first woman's suffrage association to be formed state-wide in Texas. The organization was founded in 1893 and was an affiliate of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The TERA was meant to "advance the industrial, educational, and equal rights of women, and to secure suffrage to ...
Minnie Fisher Cunningham (March 19, 1882 – December 9, 1964) was an American suffrage politician, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, and worked for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution giving women the vote.
In seventeen days, TESA and other suffrage organizations registered approximately 386,000 Texas women to vote in the Democratic primary election in July 1918, which was the first time that women in Texas were able to vote. [395] Texas suffragists then turned their attention to lobbying their federal representatives to support the Susan B ...
Bringing Americans together as the Marquis de Lafayette did would be unlikely in 2024, but the country can still learn from his story.
Texas ends the two year waiting period for people with felony convictions to restore voting rights. [59] 1998. People in Utah with a felony conviction are prohibited from voting while serving their sentence. People with a felony conviction may vote after release from prison, if they were convicted in Utah.