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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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 granting equality under the law for all Texans, regardless of sex, race,...
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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 all-woman city council during the Depression. In the late 1930s, most...
