by txwfwomensfdev | Jun 27, 2019 | Count Her In
Activist and journalist Jovita Idár wrote for La Crónica and other publications. Image from UTSA Special Collections. Like other non-white minorities, Mexican-American women in Texas were denied formal participation in the state suffrage movement. But this...
by txwfwomensfdev | Jun 27, 2019 | Count Her In
Q&A with Carlos Martinez, Database Outreach Manager On the left: Creating voter registration opportunities has helped AACT increase voter turnout in the deep South Texas. The Advocacy Alliance Center of Texas (AACT) is a non-profit, non-partisan civic engagement...
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Dr. Ellen Lawson Dabbs. Image from the From the Texas State Historical Association. Dr. Mary Ellen Lawson Dabbs Born: 1853 in Rusk County Died: 1908 Noted for: Ellen Lawson Dabbs is noted as one of the earliest woman physicians in Texas, as well as a suffrage leader...
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El Paso, circa 1910. Image from the Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library, Real Photographic Postcards of Texas Collection. Since its formation in 1914, the El Paso branch of the NAACP has played an important role in the voting and civil rights...
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A Guide to Digital Tours of Suffrage Artifacts Contemporary votes-and-women artifacts: Social media images from the Texas League of Women Voters and IGNITE In the pre-amendment era, suffragists used flyers and posters (often called broadsides), campaign...
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The Place: The St. Anthony Location: 300 E Travis St / San Antonio, TX / 78205. View a Google Map. Noted As: The hotel is noted as the site of the first meeting of the Texas League of Women Voters, as well as being one of the most modern and glamorous hotels of the...
