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Women's suffrage efforts in Texas began in 1868 at the first Texas Constitutional Convention. In both Constitutional Conventions and subsequent legislative sessions, efforts to provide women the right to vote were introduced, only to be defeated. Early Texas suffragists such as Martha Goodwin Tunstall and Mariana Thompson Folsom worked with ...
University of Texas, Austin ( BA) Judith Pappas Zaffirini (born February 13, 1946) is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from the 21st District, which includes her home city of Laredo in south Texas . Zaffririni is the first female dean of the Texas Senate. [1] Zaffirini has been named among the "Top ...
t. e. The Nineteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in ...
Timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. Travis County women register to vote in the Texas primary election in July 1918. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. Women's suffrage was brought up in Texas at the first state constitutional convention, which began in 1868. However, there was a lack of support for the proposal at the time to ...
Jessica Bernardo, who has joined the Texas abortion lawsuit, at her home in the Dallas area on May 18. (LM Otero/AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Eight more women have joined a lawsuit filed by five women ...
On Monday, three women who sued the state for the right to get an abortion held a panel discussion at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas. "My babies had a condition where their brains were not ...
Women have actually fallen behind on the voter rolls in Texas since the June 24 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against abortion rights, according to Democratic analysts from Washington, D.C.-based ...
1874: There is a referendum in Michigan on women's suffrage, but women's suffrage loses. [3] 1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3] 1878: A federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced for the first time by Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California.