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The women's primary vote provision passed both houses easily on March 21 with a vote of 84 for and 34 against in the House and 18 for and 4 against in the Texas Senate. [ 50 ] [ 65 ] Governor Hobby signed it into law on March 26, though the law would not go into effect for ninety days. [ 59 ]
While white women had secured the vote, Black women still struggled to vote in Texas. In 1944, white primaries were declared unconstitutional. Poll taxes were outlawed in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, fully enfranchising Black women voters.
Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [59] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [62] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [64]
Women in Texas did not have any voting rights when Texas was a republic (1836–1846) or after it became a state in 1846. [394] Suffrage for Texas women was first raised at the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 when Republican Titus H. Mundine of Burleson County proposed that the vote be given to all qualified persons regardless of gender ...
1918: President Wilson declares his support for women's suffrage. [6] 1918: Women in Texas earn the right to vote in primary elections. [28] 1919: Michigan grants women full suffrage. [3] 1919: Oklahoma grants women full suffrage. [3] 1919: South Dakota grants women full suffrage. [3]
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Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966
They passed a limited suffrage bill on April 16, 1929, limiting voting rights to literate women. [317] Universal suffrage was finally achieved in Puerto Rico in 1936, when a bill submitted by the Socialist Party the previous year, gained approval in the insular legislature.