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[59] [62] Since Texas was, at the time, mostly a one-party state, the primary elections were very important. [63] Suffragists lobbied for the primary vote provision to be included in the special legislative session of 1918. [59] Charles B. Metcalfe from San Angelo introduced the provision to allow women to vote in the Texas primary elections. [59]
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
More Than Black and White: Woman Suffrage and Voting Rights in Texas, 1918-1923 (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). Texas A & M University. Prycer, Melissa (2019). " 'Not Organizing for the Fun of It': Suffrage, War and Dallas Women in 1918". Legacies. 31 (1): 26–35 – via EBSCOhost. Taylor, A. Elizabeth (May 1951). "The Woman Suffrage ...
At the time the 19th Amendment was passed, both Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were unincorporated territories of the United States. [306] Suffragists believed that women in the Virgin Islands had been enfranchised when the Danish extended suffrage in 1915, as at that time the Danish West Indies were their possession.
Olympia Brown (1835–1926) – activist, first woman to graduate from a theological school, as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister, suffrage speaker. [ 29 ] Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – women's rights advocate, co-founder of the National Woman's Party .
Texas ends the two year waiting period for people with felony convictions to restore voting rights. [60] 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.
The Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) was an organization founded in 1903 to support white women's suffrage in Texas. It was originally formed under the name of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association (TWSA) and later renamed in 1916. TESA did allow men to join. [1]
Philadelphia Suffrage Association, founded in 1866 with interracial membership. [3] Progressive Women's Suffrage Club (Baltimore, Maryland), (also known as the Colored Women's Suffrage Club). [16] Tuskegee Women's Club . [17]