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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.
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.
Texas: The Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, goes into effect on January 1. [ 110 ] Mississippi: On June 15 a law making women eligible to serve on state court juries is signed by Governor John Bell Williams.
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during the two eras of activism in favor of women's rights. Some notable events:
Women are guaranteed the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In practice, the same restrictions that hindered the ability of non-white men to vote now also applied to non-white women. 1923. Texas passes a white primary law. [36] 1924
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was readopted and strengthened in 1970, 1975, and 1982. This article originally appeared on Savannah Morning News: When did women gain the right to vote? Show comments
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]
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.