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In the second Texas Constitutional Convention held in 1875, women's suffrage was again introduced. [1] W.G.T. Weaver from Cooke County was one of the men who introduced a resolution to grant women's suffrage, but his proposal died in the committee. [7] In 1884, minister and suffragist Mariana Thompson Folsom came to Texas. [8]
A proposed "Civil Rights Act of 1966" had collapsed completely because of its fair housing provision. [167] Mondale commented that: A lot of civil rights [legislation] was about making the South behave and taking the teeth from George Wallace, [but] this came right to the neighborhoods across the country. This was civil rights getting personal ...
In particular, it provides men and women with "the same right to enter into marriage, the same right freely to choose a spouse," "the same rights and responsibilities during marriage and at its dissolution," "the same rights and responsibilities as parents," "the same rights to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their ...
Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
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 ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, speaks during the Lady Bird Breakfast at the Texas Democratic Party Convention in El Paso, Texas, at the Hotel Paso Del Norte on Saturday, June 8, 2024.
October 18–20: Fifth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Sansom Street Hall in Philadelphia. [5] 1855. October 17–18: Sixth National Woman's Rights Convention, held in Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati. [5] 1856. November 25–26: Seventh National Woman's Rights Convention held in the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City. [5] 1858
The petition quotes the UN's definition of genocide as "Any intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, racial, or religious group is genocide." It concludes that "the oppressed Negro citizens of the United States, segregated, discriminated against, and long the target of violence, suffer from genocide as the result of the consistent, conscious, unified policies of every branch of ...