by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It was late 1924, and Texas governor Pat M. Neff had a problem. A land ownership dispute involving the Woodmen of the World, an influential men’s fraternal organization, had reached the state supreme court,...
by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the U.S. House of Representatives (History, Art, & Archives) In 1992, U.S. voters elected more new women to Congress than had ever previously been elected at once, thus leading to 1992 being dubbed “The Year of the Woman”. Galvanized in part by a...
by David Nordyke | Oct 7, 2020 | Count Her In
From the Austin American-Statesman: “More women than men were left standing after the war and pandemic in 1918. (Image from the Library of Congress via the New York Times) As Texas women celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment in the midst of a pandemic,...
by David Nordyke | Oct 6, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the San Antonio Express Lila Cockrell was the first woman mayor of San Antonio. At the time of her first election, she was also the only woman in the U.S. to serve as mayor of a major city. Image from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission In 1972,...
by David Nordyke | Oct 6, 2020 | Count Her In
MOVE (“Mobilize, Organize, Vote, Empower”) Texas is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization working to increase access in underrepresented youth communities through civic education, leadership development, and issue advocacy. An important focus for MOVE is...
