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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
More Than Black and White: Woman Suffrage and Voting Rights in Texas, 1918-1923 (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). Texas A & M University. Prycer, Melissa (2019). " 'Not Organizing for the Fun of It': Suffrage, War and Dallas Women in 1918". Legacies. 31 (1): 26–35 – via EBSCOhost. Taylor, A. Elizabeth (May 1951). "The Woman Suffrage ...
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 ...
The Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) was an organization founded in 1903 to support white women's suffrage in Texas. It was originally formed under the name of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association (TWSA) and later renamed in 1916. TESA did allow men to join. [1]
About one-third of the participants were taking a cholesterol-lowering medication during the study, but no one started or stopped their medication during the follow-up. During six years of yearly ...
Minnie Fisher Cunningham (March 19, 1882 – December 9, 1964) was an American suffrage politician, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, and worked for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution giving women the vote.
Donald Glover has canceled his Australia and New Zealand tour as his "recovery" from surgery is "taking longer than expected.". Per ABC's triple J, the rapper/singer/actor, 41, sent a statement to ...