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Baker requested Texas suffragists to testify about women's suffrage. [31] The suffragists included May Jarvis, Helen Jarvis Kenyon, Emma J. Mellette, Elisabet Ney, and Helen M. Stoddard. [31] The amendment failed, but a positive minority decision was prepared. [31] In addition, the effort helped revive interest in suffrage in Texas. [31]
Maude E. Craig Sampson Williams (February 1880 – March 13, 1958) was an American suffragist, teacher, civil rights leader, and community activist in El Paso, Texas.In June 1918, she formed the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Equal Franchise League and requested membership in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) through the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA), but was ...
Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs endorses suffrage in 1917. [1] Texas Woman Suffrage Association, which later becomes the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) in 1916. [14] Waco Equal Franchise Society. [15] Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Texas chapter, endorses women's suffrage in 1888. [1]
March Pauline Wells from Brownsville started the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. [29] The Texas Woman Suffrage Association is renamed the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA). [2] The annual convention was held in Dallas. [24] A Texas chapter of the suffrage group, the National Woman's Party is created. [3]
Elisabeth Freeman (September 12, 1876 – February 27, 1942) was a British-born American suffragist and civil rights activist, best known for her investigative report for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the May 1916 spectacle lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, known as the "Waco Horror".
Pages in category "Suffragists from Texas" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) was the first woman's suffrage association to be formed state-wide in Texas. The organization was founded in 1893 and was an affiliate of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The TERA was meant to "advance the industrial, educational, and equal rights of women, and to secure suffrage to ...
The Anti-Suffrage Review also used shame as a tool to fight against the suffrage movement. [19] An Anti-suffrage correspondence had taken place in the pages of The Times through 1906–1907, with further calls for leadership of the anti-suffrage movement being placed in The Spectator in February 1908. Possibly as early as 1907, a letter was ...