Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ]
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]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Since 2021, more 1.1 million people have been removed from Texas voter rolls, including 6,500 flagged as “potential noncitizens,” according to state officials.
Election Day in Texas for the 2022 primary is March 1. Before you head to your polling location, review what you need to know and who's on your ballot.
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.
The Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs officially endorses women's suffrage efforts. [3] In Galveston, Texas, a Negro Women's Voter League is formed. [3] January 13 A bill by Jess A. Baker to create a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage gets a majority of votes, but fails to get the necessary two-thirds vote to pass.