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By 1915, more and more women in Texas were supporting women's suffrage. The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs officially supported women's suffrage in 1915. Also that year, anti-suffrage opponents started to speak out against women's suffrage and in 1916, organized the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (TAOWS).
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.
Colorado passes full women's suffrage. [22] 1896. Women in Utah regain their right to vote. [29] [27] ... Women in Texas earn the right to vote in primary elections.
Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
Negro Women's Voter League (Galveston), formed in 1917. [1] Smith County Equal Franchise League (Tyler). [13] Texas Equal Rights Association (TERA) formed in 1893. [1] Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs endorses suffrage in 1917. [1] Texas Woman Suffrage Association, which later becomes the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) in 1916 ...
Turns out Texas women haven’t shown up to vote in big numbers after all. Neither have young people. Women and men are voting equally lightly and only 11% of young Texans have voted at all, ...
By the end of the war, she had led the Austin women's effort to fundraise $700,000 as women's chairman of the fourth Liberty bond drive. [3] McCallum was elected president of the Austin Women Suffrage Association in 1915. [6] She was also active in the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA). [7]
Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state's Supreme Court. PAUL J. WEBER. November 28, 2023 at 3:24 PM.