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Texas suffrage milestones and key figures in the early 20th century
The text traces the U S bid for the Nineteenth Amendment through 1918 1919 and 1920 with Senate defeats and eventual ratification in Tennessee and Texas. It highlights organizing efforts by NAACP El Paso for the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Enfranchisement League the formation of the League of Women Voters Texas and leadership of Minnie Fisher Cunningham Jane Y McCallum and Jessie Daniel Ames. It notes voter registration drives and the broader national context including the final ratification and subsequent equal rights debates and acts through 1984.
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U.S. House
U.S
Senate
Woodrow Wilson
Texas
el Paso
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Maude Sampson
el Paso Negro Woman’s Civic and Enfranchisement League
National American Woman Suffrage Association
St. Louis
Carrie Chapman Catt
League of Women Voters
League of Women Voters of Texas
St. Anthony
San Antonio
Jessie Daniel Ames
Georgetown
LWVT
New Citizen
National Women’s Party
U.S. Senate
William P. Hobby, Sr
Texas Senate
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Jane Y. McCallum
Florence Sterling
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Houston Suffrage League
The
Women’s Political League of Houston
Houston League of Women Voters
Texas Women’s Democratic League
Houston
W«oman’s Viewpoint
Tennessee
Tennessee House of Representatives
United States
Delaware
Harry Burn
Burn
America
Bainbridge Colby
Colby
General Assembly
Walker
Nashville
Decatur
Alabama
House
Congress
Alice Paul
National Woman’s Party
Seneca Falls
Charlotte Woodward
Anthony Center For Women’s Leadership
University of Rochester
National Archives and Records Administration
Wikipedia
National Archives
Handbook of Texas Online
A. Elizabeth Taylor
Jessica Brannon-Wranosky
Houston Metropolitan Research Center
Houston Public Library
Judith N. McArthur
New York
Oxford University Press
Austin
National Parks Service