by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from The Portal to Texas History, courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center of the Houston Public Library. Born: 1925 (Nordheim, TX) Died: 2002 (Crystal City, TX) Noted For: Virginia Aguirre Múzquiz is noted as an influential Mexican-American...
by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Passed in 1905, the Terrell Law created a statewide direct-primary system for all state, district, and county elective offices in Texas. The provisions of Terrell legalized and encouraged the creation of “whites-only” primary election voting requirements that resulted...
by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from Wikipedia/State Bar of Texas Born: 1896 (Baltimore) Died: 1985 (Dallas) Noted For: Sarah Tilghman Hughes was a politician and judge who is the only woman in U.S. history (to date as of 2019) to have sworn in a U.S. President, having famously administered...
by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Oveta Culp Hobby (right). Image from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Born: 1905 (Killeen) Died: 1995 (Houston) Noted For: Oveta Culp Hobby was a civil servant, journalist, and politician noted as the director of the Women’s...
by Keisha | Jul 7, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the Texas House of Representatives. Born: 1931 (Kingsville) Died: 2003 (Austin) Noted For: Irma Rangel was an educator and lawyer noted as the first Mexican American woman elected to the Texas House of Representatives. Irma Lerma Rangel was not a woman...
by Keisha | Jul 7, 2020 | Count Her In
Born: 1881 (Black River Falls, Wisconsin) Died: 1968 (Houston, TX) Noted For: Helen Edmunds Moore is remembered as one of the first women to serve in the Texas House of Representatives and president of the Texas League of Women Voters. “I decided to run for the...
