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Interviews with women in Texas reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram found that many women felt that "they are human beings and have a right to vote if they want to do so." [36] The suffrage movement was growing in Texas. [36] In October 1913, Suffragists began hosting activities in support of women's suffrage at the Texas State Fair. [37]
Washington Territory: Women are granted jury service rights. [40] [41] 1887. Washington Territory: Women's jury service rights are rescinded due to a change in the territory's Supreme Court. [40] [41] Idaho: Married women are granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4]
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.
“It’s empowering for all of us women working to make sure we have progressive advances in this rural part of Texas.” There appears to be more excitement for this election in Lubbock, a city ...
Poverty rates are even worse for Black single moms, who make up almost 30 percent of all single moms in the country. And for the almost 16 million children in single-mom families, the risk of ...
And Black women, who historically have higher chances of dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after, saw their rates go from 31.6 to 43.6 per 100,000 live births.While maternal ...
The Parental Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution is a proposed change to the United States Constitution. The amendment's advocates say that it will allow parents' rights to direct the upbringing of their children, protected from federal interference, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Amendment was ...
Under her tenure, TWSA received support from the Federation of Women's Clubs, the Texas Farm Women, Texas Press Women and the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). [2] In 1915, the Texas Association of Women's Clubs, which was the umbrella organization of African American women's clubs in Texas, endorsed women's suffrage. [25]