WOW Museum: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage


Texas

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Timeline

1845-   Texas becomes 28th state.

1893-   Texas Equal Suffrage Association formed.

1896-   Plessy v. Ferguson decision upholds Texas Jim Crow laws, including restrictions on black voting rights.

1914-   Suffrage bill defeated in state legislature.

1917-   Anti-suffrage Governor James P. Ferguson impeached.

1918-   Texas women win the right to vote in state primaries and political conventions.

1919-   Texas legislature ratifies 19th Amendment, the ninth state in the nation to ratify.





Polltax Poster
Negro cotton pickers. From Women's Bureau WWI Collection. Circa 1920s.
National Archives and Records Administration

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