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 [...]
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, [...]
Image from Flashback Dallas. The Dallas Canteen (officially known as The Recreational Canteen) Organized In: 1918 by the Dallas Federation of Women’s Clubs Noted For: Recreation and hospitality [...]
Jessie Daniel Ames. From the Austin History Center. Jessie Daniel Ames Born: 1883 in Palestine, TX Died: 1972 in Austin, TX Noted For: Jessie Ames was the founding president of the Texas League [...]
How was the Texas campaign for votes for women reported in the news media of the era? On the left: The Woman Citizen, a women’s rights weekly that existed from 1870 to 1931, was an [...]
On the left: A call for men’s support of women’s suffrage from the Texas Equal Suffrage Association. Image from the Austin History Center. Were Texas men in favor of votes for women? Many [...]
Christia Adair in front of a mural about her life. Image from the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, via the Texas State Historical Association. Christia V. Daniels Adair Born: 1893 in [...]
Travis County women register to vote. Image from the W.D. Hornaday Collection, Prints and Photographs Collection, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives [...]
Image from the Harris County Democratic Party. The candidates are in a courtroom at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law. When Tennessee became the 36th state [...]
From the Daughters Of the Republic of Texas Museum, Austin via the Dallas Morning News archives. Compared to the dizzying array of communication vehicles that exist today, suffragist [...]