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  2. Women's suffrage in Texas - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Grimké sisters - Wikipedia

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    The Grimké sisters, Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké [1] (1805–1879), were the first nationally-known white American female advocates of the abolition of slavery and women's rights. [2] [page needed] They were speakers, writers, and educators. They were and remained the only Southern white women in the abolition ...

  4. Timeline of women's suffrage in Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs officially endorses women's suffrage efforts. In Galveston, Texas, a Negro Women's Voter League is formed. January 13 A bill by Jess A. Baker to create a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage gets a majority of votes, but fails to get the necessary two-thirds vote to pass.

  5. Texas Association of Women's Clubs - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Association of Women's Clubs ( TAWC) is an umbrella organization of African American women's clubs in Texas. It was first organized as the Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1905. The purpose of the group was to allow clubs to work together to improve the social and moral life of people in Texas. [1]

  6. Category:Women's suffrage in Texas - Wikipedia

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    T. Texas Equal Rights Association. Texas Equal Suffrage Association. Timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. Categories: Feminism in Texas. History of women in Texas. Women's suffrage in the United States by state or territory. Political history of Texas.

  7. Press Women of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Press Women of Texas (PWT) is an association of Texas women journalists which was founded in 1893. PWT is an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW). PWT was involved in more than just supporting women in journalism; the organization advocated many causes, including education, preservation of library and archive materials and supporting scholarships.

  8. Women's suffrage in states of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Presidential suffrage for women in Kentucky is signed into law on March 29, 1920. In the early days of January 1920, National Woman's Party members Dora Lewis and Mabel Vernon travel to Kentucky to assure success, and on January 6, Kentucky became the 23rd state to ratify the 19th Amendment.

  9. Category:History of women in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt. Disappearance of Kelly Dae Wilson. Woman's Club of Beaumont Clubhouse. Woman's Club of El Paso. Woman's Club of San Antonio. Woman's Commonwealth. Women on Trial. The Women's Museum.