by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from Facebook La Mujer Obrera (“The Woman Worker”) is an El Paso-based organization and movement “dedicated to creating communities defined by women”. The organization was founded in 1981 in response to conditions that led to the 1982 Farah Strike, in which...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Adlene Harrison, first woman mayor of Dallas. Image from the Portal to Texas History. Kay Bailey Hutchinson: In 1993, former journalist and attorney Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who was then serving as the state treasurer, made history when she was elected to the United...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from Good Books in the Woods Born: 1866 (in Belle Plain, IL) Died: 1935 (Texas) Noted For: Phebe Kerrick Warner was noted as a prominent women’s club leader, lecturer, newspaper columnist, and political candidate. In the early years of the 20th century, Texas...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
LBJ, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965. Public domain image. In 1965, in the wake of the shocking violence perpetrated on peaceful voting rights protestors at the historical Selma-Montgomery March,...
by Kristyn Senters | Sep 4, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the Portal to Texas History By 1920, all citizens of Texas had the right to vote, at least on paper. But the reality was that minority Texans, Texans disenfranchised by poverty, and some Texas women were still barred from the ballot box, despite the...
