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Throughout Texas and US history, women have always been suppressed in the political world; with men dominating the office, making up the work industry, and having more constitutional rights. In fact, women weren't inducted into any Texas government positions until the progressive era in 1908.
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]
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.
In their book, Texas Politics Today 2009-2010, authors Maxwell, Crain, and Santos attribute Texas' traditionally low voter turnout among whites to these influences. [4] But beginning in the early 20th century, voter turnout was dramatically reduced by the state legislature's disenfranchisement of most blacks, and many poor whites and Latinos.
After 1920, when women were able to vote, she became active in the Texas League of Women Voters. [6] For the Texas amendment on primaries, she served as the state publicity and press manager, and for the Nineteenth Amendment, she served as the state chairman of its ratification committee. [3] She was part of the "Petticoat Lobby", which worked ...
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.
As women across the country gear up to to participate in a one-day protest on Wednesday, dubbed "A Day Without a Woman," the history of mass political actions organized by women continues.
But several women in the forefront of the fight for reproductive freedom say the high-profile, and tragic, case of Kate Cox and her inability to obtain a legal abortion in Texas, despite her ...