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In the fall of 1917, suffragists in Texas gathered signatures in support of a woman's suffrage bill in the United States Congress. [59] Suffragists in Houston contacted influential business leaders and secured their endorsements for women's suffrage. [60] Suffragists in Texas also started working with the new Texas governor, William P. Hobby. [59]
However, the suffragists in Texas were unable to have equal suffrage adopted in the party platforms of the Democratic, Republican, or Populist Party. [2] Beaumont, Belton, Circleville, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio set up local chapters of TERA. [7] TERA is divided over whether to invite Susan B. Anthony to give lectures in Texas. [10] 1895
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives. University of Georgia Press. pp. 201–224. ISBN 978-0820347202. JSTOR j.ctt175758p.16. Enstam, Elizabeth York (2001). "A Question to Be 'Settled Right': The Dallas Campaign for Woman Suffrage, 1913–1919". Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas. 13 (2): 30–38
In seventeen days, TESA and other suffrage organizations registered approximately 386,000 Texas women to vote in the Democratic primary election in July 1918, which was the first time that women in Texas were able to vote. [395] Texas suffragists then turned their attention to lobbying their federal representatives to support the Susan B ...
Originally envisioned as a modest publication that would be produced quickly, the history evolved into a six-volume work of more than 5700 pages written over a period of 41 years. Its last two volumes were published in 1920, long after the deaths of the project's originators, by Ida Husted Harper, who also assisted with the fourth volume ...
A long line of strong Central Texas women. It is good to be reminded that Carpenter was a 5th-generation Texan whose early years were spent in the Central Texas town of Salado.
A new Texas law calls for every student who performs in the top 40% on a fifth-grade math assessment to be enrolled automatically in advanced math for sixth grade. The rollout could provide ...
Suffragists calling themselves the Silent Sentinels picketing in front of the White House. The campaign for women's suffrage picked up speed in the 1910s as the established women's groups won in the western states and moved east, leaving the conservative South for last. Parades were favorite publicity devices. [195]