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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
Image from Wikipedia Born/Died: 1900 and 1993 (Nacogdoches, TX) Noted For: Lera Millard Thomas is noted as the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. Early in her [...]
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 [...]
Image from Facebook Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Voto Latino is a grassroots political organization that focuses on “educating and empowering a new generation of Latinx voters, as well as [...]
Activist and librarian Martha P. Cotera is one of the co-founders of the Texas Women’s Political Caucus. Image from Wikipedia. In 1971, more than 200 women gathered in Austin to form the Texas [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]