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Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins (1952–), first woman of color to serve as president of the League of Women Voters and the only one in the first hundred years of the League. [9] Florence Kelley (1859–1932), a social and political reformer active in NAWSA and instrumental in founding the League of Women Voters, the National Consumers League and the ...
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization.Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and advocating for voting rights.
In 1923, she represented the national League of Women Voters at the Pan American Congress. [2] She also served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1920, 1924, and 1928. [ 2 ] Ames served in several other organizations including the Texas branch of the American Association of University Women , Texas Committee on Prisons and ...
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Austin, was led by the League of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters Texas, and Texas residents Ralph Edelbach and Barbara Mason.
The League of Women Voters of the Columbia Area is providing VOTE411 for more than 30 races and 94 candidates – mostly for Lexington and Richland counties.
The League of Women Voters of Amarillo recently hosted a forum to discuss Proposition A, a measure that could declare Amarillo a "sanctuary city for the unborn." ... Conservatives of Texas hosted ...
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] The endorsement of women’s suffrage by the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs especially helped make the movement respectable to many middle-class women. [26]
Two groups, the Galveston Negro Women's Voter League and the Colored Welfare League of Austin not only registered voters, but also sued election officials who turned away Black women. [ 100 ] In 1921, women born in Mexico who were in the process of becoming citizens lost the right to vote in Texas. [ 63 ]