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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 ...
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.
Suffragists believed that women in the Virgin Islands had been enfranchised when the Danish extended suffrage in 1915, as at that time the Danish West Indies were their possession. Similarly, as Puerto Ricans were confirmed to be U. S. citizens in 1917, it was assumed that suffrage had been extended there as well with the passage of the 19th ...
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]
The first female MPs in the world were elected in Finland in 1907. Grand Duchy of Finland (An autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire) (first in Europe to give women the right to vote and stand for parliament as a result of 1905 Russian Revolution). [6] [7] The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the ...