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    Count Her In

     Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold

    Image from the Legislative Reference Library Born: 1926 (in Corpus Christi) Noted For: Frances “Sissy” Tarlton Farenthold is noted as a former Texas legislator, a two-time candidate for Texas [...]

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    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    Resources for Texas Voters

    Image from the League of Women Voters Education Fund website VOTE411 Sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, VOTE411 is “committed to ensuring voters have the information they [...]

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     Celebrating the 19th Amendment in the News
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    Celebrating the 19th Amendment in the News

    Minnie Fisher Cunningham, a leader in the Texas suffrage movement, campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 1927. Image from the Austin Public Library. “How Texas Women Delivered the 19th Amendment” [...]

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     Lera Millard Thomas
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    Lera Millard Thomas

    Image from Wikipedia Early in her legislative career, U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson was frequently obliged to correct people who referred to her as the “second woman in Texas” (after Barbara [...]

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     IGNITE in Texas
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    IGNITE in Texas

    Image from the IGNITE-Texas website. IGNITE is a California-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that inspires and trains young women to become political leaders, working primarily through [...]

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     The Texas All-Woman Supreme Court
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    The Texas All-Woman Supreme Court

    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 [...]

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     The Year(s) of the Woman
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    The Year(s) of the Woman

    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 [...]

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     The Spanish Flu Pandemic and the Right to Vote
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 7, 2020

    The Spanish Flu Pandemic and the Right to Vote

    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 [...]

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     Post Amendment Memorabilia
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 6, 2020

    Post Amendment Memorabilia

    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 [...]

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     MOVE Texas
    By David Nordyke
    In Count Her In
    Posted October 6, 2020

    MOVE Texas

    MOVE (“Mobilize, Organize, Vote, Empower”) Texas is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization working to increase access in underrepresented youth communities through civic education, [...]

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