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 [...]
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) [...]
Image from Twitter The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the United States, is a non-partisan movement that seeks to “advance the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Image from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission In 1972, more than fifty years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, Texas voters approved an amendment to the state constitution [...]
Image by Neal Douglass, from the Austin History Center Born and Died: 1865 and 1956 in Kyle, TX Noted For: Mary Lucy Kyle Hartson is noted as an early woman mayor of Texas who presided over an [...]