by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Pictured: The Senate Chamber. Image from the Bullock Museum The Texas Senate The Texas Senate Chamber is located on the second floor of the east wing of the Texas State Capitol. Noteworthy features include “sunset red” granite steps leading into the chamber,...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the MALDEF resource page MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is a Latino legal civil rights organization dedicated to defending the “rights of all Latinos living in the United States and the constitutional rights of all Americans.”...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
The poll tax restricted access to the ballot box for minorities, women, and poor voters for much of the 20th century. Public domain image. For the better part of a century in post-Civil War America, Texas and other states enforced racial segregation and other...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the Bullock Museum. On January 23, 1964, U.S. states ratified the 24th Amendment, which outlawed the poll tax (a fee imposed as a condition of voting) or any type of tax as a requirement for voting eligibility in federal elections. Along with the 15th and...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the NAACP Civic Engagement Website Founded in 1909 in response to the ongoing violence against black Americans, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is the nation’s largest non-partisan civil rights organization, with...
