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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 enfranchise women.
There was also a fear in white or Anglo Texas that allowing women to vote would lead to "black domination" of the state. [45] Other groups of people, such as those involved in the liquor industry, textile factory owners, and those already in political power opposed women's suffrage in Texas because they did not want the status quo to change. [45]
Senfronia Thompson is the longest serving woman in the Texas House of Representatives. She has served from 1973 to the present. Despite the presence of notable women in office, according to the Center for American Women and Politics, Texas has consistently ranked in the bottom half of American states for its percentage of female state ...
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. [394]
Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas. 13 (2): 30–38; Enstam, Elizabeth York (November 2002). "The Dallas Equal Suffrage Association, Political Style, and Popular Culture: Grassroots Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1913-1919". Journal of Southern History. 68 (4): 817–848. doi:10.2307/3069775.
We should see more women running for office and winning. Texas women are active politically. They vote. In the 2020 presidential election, 6.3 million Texas women voted, compared with 5.6 million men.
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Texas’ border cities have tended to be more welcoming to immigrants than other parts of the state, since many in these areas have long seen themselves and their Mexican neighbors as a big ...